Laura Heaton's blog

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Curious to see and hear the analysts working on Enough’s policy on South Sudan and Sudan? CNN and Al Jazeera recently featured Jenn Christian and Amanda Hsiao, two of Enough’s Sudan researchers, in prominent news broadcasts.  Read More »

Did the U.N. mission in South Sudan muster all its resources to protect civilians caught up in violence in restive Jonglei state? Certainly some media reports have suggested that the civilian deaths in the midst of ongoing clashes between the Murle and the Lou Nuer have demonstrated the ineffectiveness of U.N. peacekeeping. Hilde F. Johnson, head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, or UNMISS, sought to correct this perception and counter the scale of the killing in an oped that appeared on The New York Times website and in The International Herald Tribune.  Read More »

With attention focused on the tense Sudan-South Sudan talks in Addis Ababa this week, media coverage only paused for a moment to recognize yet another aerial bombardment of a refugee site in South Sudan.  Read More »

Judges at the International Criminal Court confirmed charges against four prominent Kenyans wanted on allegations they orchestrated violence that left an estimated 1,200 people dead after the late 2007 elections. The decision marked the “first solid step” in pursuit of justice for the victims and a crucial move in deterring violence ahead of upcoming presidential elections, said an advocate in the Kenyan capital.  Read More »

A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday (or on occasion, on Saturday).  Read More »

At an event this week hosted by the Stanley Foundation in New York to recognize the anniversary, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon offered complimentary remarks about the use of R2P to justify action in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya. But it was the U.N. secretary general’s unusually candid insights about the limitations of implementing the Responsibility to Protect in South Sudan recently that stood out.  Read More »

Kenya’s landmark incursion into Somalia last October and ongoing military operations present some important opportunities and disquieting potential pitfalls for establishing lasting security in a region controlled by the al Qaeda-linked jihadi group al-Shabaab.

This guest post for Think Progress introduces "After the Kenyan Intervention in Somalia," Enough's latest Somalia report, written by Ken Menkhaus.  Read More »

A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday.  Read More »

A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday.  Read More »