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Darfur and Indiana may seem worlds away from each other, but they have one very important fact in common: Both are home to Darfurians. Fort Wayne, Indiana is home to one of the largest populations of Darfurians ? approximately 300 ? in the United States. They also live throughout the state in South Bend, Indianapolis and Elkhart. People from Darfur began to settle in Indiana in the 1990s bu...
By Charles J. Brown Eighteen months to go. That?s the mantra you hear these days: Only 18 more months before the end of arguably the worst presidency in American history. On January 20, 2009, our long nightmare will be over, and a new era of sanity and sweetness, measured action and multilateral diplomacy, will commence. I don?t think so. First of all, we can?t wait 18 months: Pr...
Citizens for Global Solutions? Herbert Scoville Peace Fellow, Julia Fitzpatrick, recently spoke with Suliman Giddo, the co-founder and president of the Darfur Peace and Development Organization (DPADO), based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Founded in 2002, DPADO?s mission is to provide humanitarian relief to victims of the genocide in Darfur, to facilitate just governance and to enable Darfurians to e...
In the 1990s, the world witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 people in the Rwandan genocide and the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian men in the Srebrenica region of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1999, the targeted NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo ? controversial due to a lack of U.N. Security Council approval ? raised questions about the legality of humanitarian intervention and military force. Today, the wor...
Citizens for Global Solutions? energy initiative seeks to build support for a more comprehensive, more cooperative U.S. energy policy. We are seeking to enact three key pieces of legislation that are equipped to handle the multiple challenges posed by the current global energy system. The first is Senate Resolution 30 (S.Res.30), the Biden-Lugar resolution on international climate change a...
Over the last six months, Citizens for Global Solutions has been working on a campaign to end torture in response to the ?enhanced interrogation? strategies employed by the Bush administration that directly violate the Geneva Conventions. These officially sanctioned policies have enabled the CIA to act with impunity in the kidnapping and rendering of suspected enemy combatants to foreign regime...
By Charles J. Brown From the Oscars to the president?s State of the Union address, everyone is talking about the need for America to reduce its dependence on foreign oil and other fossil fuels. More often than not, the solution proposed is something called energy independence. But what exactly does that term mean? What are we declaring independence from? And why? Such questions aren?t often a...
Raj Purohit, Senior Fellow at Citizens for Global Solutions, is a specialist in International Law and Justice. Prior to joining our staff in 2005, he was Legislative Director for Human Rights First, where he represented them in a range of coalitions, including the Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court, and was a media spokesperson. He also has served as Legislative Director...