While the Darfur region of Sudan remains in a deep crisis, there are three significant opportunities immediately for the United States to push for a lasting peace for all of Sudan, Enough Project Co-Chair John Prendergast told the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom at a hearing on Capitol Hill today. Mr. Prendergast cited “crucial opportunities the United States must urgently seize to prevent Sudan’s slide into full scale war.”
“In the absence of real investment in peacemaking and peace implementation, the crisis in Darfur will deepen and the CPA will collapse,” Mr. Prendergast told the Commission. “If Darfur continues to deteriorate, the likelihood increases dramatically of a return to what was—for 20 years—a far more destructive war in the South.”
Calling for a “peace surge for Sudan,” Mr. Prendergast delivered to the Commission a new eight-page strategy paper, “Sudan: Opportunity in the Midst of Crisis,” detailing the roots of the Sudan crisis and its possible solutions, which he co-authored with Enough Project Policy Advisor Colin Thomas-Jensen.
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