Ideas for DAC 08-09 Mission

Darfur Action Committee
Objective of the Year

Basically, I believe that we should join the ENOUGH Project in its plan to stop the genocide through peace, protection and punishment. Here’s an outline of ENOUGH’s plan, followed by ways DAC can join the plan:

- Mission: Ensure Peace and Security in Darfur

§ Appoint a single, empowered mediator

· Produce a comprehensive draft agreement

· Begin peace talks with key constituencies in Darfur over the draft agreement

· Involve the Quartet in peace talks

§ Support the mediator with coordinated international leverage

· US, China, France, UK

o US Special Envoy should have two full-time deputies working the Darfur and CPA issues as well as a field-based team with personnel in Khartoum, Chad and Juba

§ Address the Darfur conflict in its local and national contexts

§ Protection

· Deploy all 26,000 UNAMID troops by the end of 2008

· Ensure humanitarian access

§ Accountability

· Impose multilateral costs on individuals most responsible for violence targeting civilians or for obstructing humanitarian relief efforts

o UN sanctions on key individuals

o UN-imposed comprehensive arms embargo

o Addition support to ICC

o Ensure Khartoum implements the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005

- Ways DAC can join the plan

§ Educate the campus on the All-Sudan situation in order for them to understand the Darfur conflict in its local and national contexts

· EPC proposal in the making!

§ Continue to educate on the urgency of Darfur

· EPC proposal in the making!

§ Call on students to be active against the genocide through letter writing campaigns and phone banking

· Letters/phonebanking will push the Administration to be a serious part of the Quartet and to be serious with other policies (see: single, empowered mediator, protection and accountability)

Source: http://enoughproject.org/reports/creatingpeacedarfur