Post on 04-Jan-2016
Darfur A Genocide We can Stop
Presented by Hsin-yi Lee
Director of Academics, NTUMUN
What is Peacekeeping?• UN definition :a way to help countries torn
by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace
• authorized by the Security Council
• UN army?
Process
• Peace treaty signed
Comprehensive Peace Agreement
• Security Council creates mission
SC resolution 1590, 24 March 2005
United Nations Mission in Sudan(UNMIS)
• Department of Peacekeeping Operation
• Form ad hoc coalitions
United Nations Mission in Sudan
Three Central Powers
Head of Mission Deputy Special Representativeof the Secretary-General
Force Commander
UNMIS to UNAMID• funding problem for the AU Mission in the
Sudan (AMIS)
• Refusal of UNMIS expansion by Sudanese Government
• Idea of hybrid mission
• On August 24, Sudan rejected attending a United Nations Security Council meeting
• Sudan asked AU force to leave
• "they have no right to transfer this assignment to the United Nations or any other party. This right rests with the government of Sudan."
Darfur Peace Agreement
• Signed 5 May, 2006
• Government of Sudan and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (Minni Minawi)
UNAMID
• The hybrid UN/AU force was finally approved on 31 July 2007
• UNAMID will take over from AMIS by 31 December 2007
Genocide or Not?
• UN report in 2005: mass murders and rapes, “ genocidal intent appears to be missing.”
• Arab world: "not genocide," simply "war crimes."
NEVER AGAINthen there was Rwanda
NOW DARFURThe first genocide in the 21s
t Century
UN Aid Agencies
• OCHA - Humanitarian Affairs UNHCHR - Human Rights
• UNDP - Development
• UNHCR - Refugees
• UNICEF - Children
• WFP - Food
• WHO - Health
World Food Program
• Emergency food assistance
• Country Program
• School feeding
UNICEF The United Nations Children's Fund
• Water and environmental sanitation
• Health and nutrition
• Education
• Child protection
• Relief and shelter
World Health Organization
• Health actions in crisis ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council)
OCHA (Coordination of Humanitarian Action)
UNDG (United Nations Development Group)
ECHA (Executive Committee on Humanitarian Affairs)
• Health as a bridge to peace
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
400,000 DEATHS
2 million more driven from home
Harvard Darfur Action Group
"Students Dream for Darfur" vigil at 2:00 PM in Harvard Yard on Sunday, October 7, 2007.
• Created by high school students
• Awareness through Stories
• Fundraising Ideas
• National Action Campaign
• Petition
• Donations
•
Darfur A Genocide YOU can Stop