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The Need for Humanitarian Intervention in Sudan-Darfur Crisis
| |2009 |
| |Coventry University |
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| |Delawar Khan |

|Essay Title: The Need for Humanitarian Intervention in Sudan-Darfur crisis |
|Key issues in Peace and Reconciliation Studies (Course Module :Mo3 ISS |
|Date of Submission: January 10, 2010) |

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Table of contents
Introduction 2

“The Right to protect and the Need for Intervention” 3

Success, challenges and constraints in the AU intervention 5

Recent Development in the Region 8

Conclusion 9

References 10

Introduction

The main purpose of this essay is to conduct an analysis of the crisis in Sudan with particular focus on Darfur. This analysis has touched different aspects of the conflict including justification for humanitarian interventions on the basis “The Right to Protect” In-depth analysis of constraints, challenges and risks of failure to protect. Additionally; I have also analysed and identified gaps and shortcomings in the United Nations and African Union efforts and their respective mandates to ensure protection of refuges and delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected population.
To write this essay, I have explored and searched for different available materials on the topic in the Library, examined different relevant articles in the



References: Bellamy, A, J. 2005, “Responsibility to protect or Trojan horse”, the crisis in Darfur and humanitarian intervention after Iraq, Ethics and International Affairs, 19(2), pp.31-54. Beitz, C. 1979, Bounded Morality: Justice and the State in the World Politics, 33(3), pp.405-424. Coebergh, J. 2005, Sudan: The genocide has killed more than the tsunami, Parliamentary Brief, 7. Economist, 2006, “Will they be rescued “, Vol. 380, issue 8496. Iyob, R., and Khadiagala, G, M. 2006, Sudan,” The Elusive Quest for Peace” pp. 133-166 International Commission of Inquiry, 2005, Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur at www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/2005/ici-sud-25feb.pdf Human Rights watch, 2004Darfur: Donors Must Address Atrocities Fuelling Crisis’, New York at www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/09/27/darfur9390.htm New York Times, 2008, “China, in New Role, Presses Sudan on Darfur” Prendergast, J. 1997, “Crisis Response”, Humanitarian Band-Aids in Sudan and Somalia, pp.3-44 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2004, Situation of Human Rights in the Darfur Region of the Sudan. Wafula, Okumu, AU/UN intervention: challenge of protecting civilian populations and Ending conflict in Darfur, at http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=21207 Washington Post, 2004, U.S

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