In honor of World Refugee Day 2012, the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program at the Enough project and the Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital area will be hosting a joint celebration that will include music, art, and food. The event is meant be participatory, educational, uplifting and fun especially for the refugees families who have resettled in the DMV area.
Global Solutions Pittsburgh, an education and human rights group in Pennsylvania, recently paired up with a school in Pittsburgh to teach eighth grade students about genocide. In this guest blog post and video, Global Solutions Pittsburgh's Michele Cahill describes the intiative and why she personally found the work inspiring. Read More »
Summer is just around the corner, and the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program is gearing up for our 2nd annual Summer Service Challenge. We started the Summer Service Challenge last year as an opportunity for students, teachers, and community members to learn more, raise awareness, and take action in honor of the 43 million refugees and displaced people around the world. The 2012 challenge will begin on World Refugee Day, June 20, and end on July 31. Read More »
After a five year long trial, warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor was convicted yesterday of “aiding and abetting” a rebels notorious for their use of child soldiers and favor terror tactic, amputation, in the vicious 1991-2002 civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone in which an estimated 50,000 people died. The conviction is the first by an international tribunal of a former head of state since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, a development that was no doubt received with concern by the growing list of former leaders wanted for orchestrating atrocities. Read More »
Middle school social studies teacher and coach Brian Cleveland recently returned from the Darfuri refugee camp of Djabal. He travelled to eastern Chad with Darfur Dream Team partner iAct to recruit players for the brand new soccer team Darfur United and wrote this guest blog post about the visit. Read More »
In an effort to fulfill the pledge of “never again,” the APB will be charged with setting up better early warning systems for detecting mass atrocities around the globe and creating cooperative, comprehensive strategies for responding to these signals in order to intervene and stop the atrocities before they occur. Read More »
Editor’s Note: This post is intended to provide a contextual background for understanding the complex issues that the Enough Project works on. It is part of the series Enough 101. Read More »
