PROGRESS
REPORT #4: Genocide in Darfur
Progress
Report #1: Group #2: Jessica Parkman, Maeve Mallozzi-Kelly,
Becky Seward, Brooke Johaningmeyer, Jacques Poirier,Colleen Wethern
Darfur/Genocide
Our topic is on Darfur and genocide in general. We
plan on developing our action campaign by looking at pre-existing organizations
on genocide/Darfur who are actually putting forth effort to help the
cause. Our group will utilize a lot of
internet resources such as video clips, electronic databases, other action
campaign websites, and other useful websites like “the convention of
genocide”. We established that we are
separating our group into two smaller groups. One group will focus on
researching and putting together information on the history of Darfur/genocide
while the other group will focus on coming up with resolutions to help stop
genocide. The history group with include Jessica, Jacques, and Colleen, and the
resolution group will include Brooke, Becky, Maeve, and Jennifer.
We will try to answer the following questions: What
is the history of Darfur and genocide in general? What are the origins of
genocide? How is genocide still effecting people within different areas of the
world such as darfur, rwanda, bosnia, etc.? What efforts have been taken to
stop genocide thus far? What can we do now to help stop genocide?
During our meeting, we came up with some ideas that will help us develop
an effective campaign. We thought about getting the class involved during our
presentation by separating them into a few different countries to make them
critically think about the issue at hand.
After we have presented them information on how genocide is affecting
people to this day. We want to obtain feedback, from the individuals within the
different countries, on whether they agree or disagree with their countries
views on genocide. Also we had an idea on focusing our action campaign on one
issue so we can narrow in on such a broad topic. Finally, the last ideas we
established were about how we could get people to take action on genocide. We
came up with protesting for stronger
regulations on what the UN considers to be genocide, and we would like people
to think about providing funds to private organizations that will go into
countries to help stop genocide. We have
yet to determine whether we will use all of these ideas or not.
Progress
Report #2
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We have also decided on a more specific way to
incorporate a class discussion into our presentation. The history group will
split the class up in three major countries: America, China, and Russia (China
and Russia still supply Darfur with ammunition and guns to kill people) and
then give the groups a background of what their countries think about genocide
and how they reacted to it. Then we will tie this into our action campaign and
we will try to convenience them to act to help stop violence completely and
help improve the quality of life of refugees. We are trying to, see at the end,
if they will change their opinions and act against what their countries are
doing to the people and Darfur. We also thought about making handouts of what
their countries think so they have something to look at during our
presentation.
Progress
Report #3
Jacques Poirier
I have gathered information from a few
articles which I found to be very unique. One of which I used for a project
last year in my I-100 class during a Darfur discussion in my lecture hall. MY
focus for my part in the action campaign group, is to find and put together
history of the Darfur crisis so that we can connect the past to modern
situations and applicably fix the regions cultural, social, and violent issues.
This first article that I have posted is called, "Timeline, Darfur
Crisis." IT gives a very general "points to facts" view of the
Darfur crisis. IT gives a summary between 2003- 2010 of the culturally dividing
issues tearing Northern and Southern Sudan apart. Everything from major rebel
attacks to Janjaweed skirmishes are listed. In the second source I have listed,
it is a book called "A Short History of
a Long War." I read this book several years ago, and just recently
re-read it to refresh my memory. It was published in 2006, so it is not
completely up to date, but gives valid points on not only the political and
cultural biases for each sides motivation for fighting the war and involving
themselves with genocide, but also a personal perspective from a soldier working
under the government of Sudan and a Journalist who go side by side documenting
everything they see. It is from a ground level up perspective of the real
situation from two individuals directly in the cross fire of the genocide. The
third article was called, "A New History of a Long War." It sections
out different categories of the crisis into the Political structure, the
cultural structure and the 30 year struggle over control for the now split
nation into two separate states of Northern and Southern Sudan.
Jessica Parkman
I have been looking up multiple resources trying to
find the most accurate history on Darfur-genocide. I am apart of the history
portion of our group project. I believe I have come up with some credible
sources such as the United Nations, darfur action campaign groups, and sudan
tribune. I have found current information on
what is going on in darfur, as well as, history going back to the first
issues that occured in the 1970's. We are going to establish a time line so I
have been trying to find key turning points in the issues of Darfur. The one
thing I found interesting when reading the articles was that China and Russia
were supplying ammunition and weapons to the Sudan government knowing what they
were doing with the equipment.
Here are the sources I have found thus far:
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article11445
http://www.savedarfur.org/pages/primer
http://www.the-ethic.org/darfurbackground.htm
http://www.un.org/News/dh/dev/scripts/darfur_formatted.htm
Jennifer Bellio
For our project we wanted to focus somewhat on the
refugee problem that is now going on in Darfur.
I am doing research on the newly establish Republic of South Sudan, the
peace agreements they have entered into and trying to figure out why many
refugees feel it is still not safe to return home. Below are some site I have found to help
explain this, sites about the government itself as well as the peace treaties
it has entered into.
http://www.gossmission.org/goss/images/cca.pdf
http://www.gossmission.org/goss/images/Documents/interior%20press%20release0001.pdf
http://www.goss.org/
Maeve Mallozzi-Kelley
My responsibility for the Darfur project is to
research why the UN became concerned about Genocide and how they’ve been
implementing their legislation on the issue ever since. I may use some specific
examples of other cases of genocide and compare them to the one in Darfur so
the class will understand why the UN acted differently in different situations.
I will use Rwanda, because the class is already familiar with that example, and
Cambodia, because I’m assuming not many people know much about this situation.
I’ve already looked at a few articles, both academic and popular, about the
situations surrounding both of these Genocides, one of which was John Mueller’s
article “The Banality of ‘Ethnic War’”. This article is really helpful in
understanding the difficulty in defining genocide especially in regards to what
happened in Rwanda. Along with this research I have also looked at the “
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” and
intend on including key points in the power point and focusing on how the UN
either honors them or not and why.
OUTLINE
OF PRESENTATION
Information
each person will present:
Jacques Poirier – Politics of Oil in Sudan
Colleen Wethern – Ethnicity
Jessica Parkman – Desertification and Refugee Camp
Issues
Becky Seward – UN’s Roles and US Role’s in Darfur
Maeve Mallozzi-Kelley – UN’s Definition of genocide,
and Steps to label it as genocide
Jennifer Bellio – Government Peace Treaties, and why
government is still blocking aid
Brooke Johaningmeyer – Specific refugee camps such
as Chad and Ethiopia, and reasons why can’t go home yet
Overall
Outline
- UN definition of Genocide
- Maeve- general UN prevention
- Challenge- history
- Causes of Darfur Genocide:
- Colleen – Ethnicity
- Jacques – Oil
- Jessica – Desertification and problems
in the IDP camps
- Turning point- what’s going on now
- What’s happening with refugees –Brooke
- Refugee camps
- US and UN role in Darfur- Becky
- Sudanese government- Jennifer
- Some have been convicted, some won’t be
- Action Campaign
- Government Trials - Jennifer
- Criminal investigations into those
responsible
- Government blocking foreign aid
- Save Darfur- Maeve
- Desertification- Jessica
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