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Sudan: intensive diplomacy, differed intervention and lack of effective protection for the population
14/12/2004 By Luis Peral
In Sudan Although the international community has been late and provided an insufficient answer, or precisely because of that, the Darfur massacre has to be constantly present in the United Nations reform, which has apparently gained new strength.
And, likewise, it must direct European efforts to consolidate a Security and Defence Policy that can contribute to putting the aims of the International Law into practice in the framework of a future European Constitution.
Darfur must also be the constant reference to value the scope of the refoundation of the African Union and to propose, in that framework, the reforms that could particularly allow effectively preventing potential genocides in Africa.
Finally, Darfur must be an incentive for the League of Arab States to start developing action capabilities beyond great declarations.
However, going back to the beginning, Darfur can be considered a dramatic example of the consequences derived from a peace process with national repercussions in which the participation of all the regions in the country and of all the affected groups was not foreseen.
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Keywords
Conflict resolution Humanitarian action Middle East and North Africa Sudan UNRelated publications
Bio author: Luis Peral
Luis Peral is PhD in Law, MA in Law of the European Union, MA in Law, BA in Political Sciences, with specialisation in International Relations (Universities Complutense and Carlos III of Madrid), and Diploma in English Law (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK). He has collaborated with FRIDE as Researcher and currently works as Director of the Conflict Prevention and Resolution programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace. He also works at the Centre for Constitutional Studies of the Ministry of the Presidency under the Ramón y Cajal Research Programme of the Spanish Government, and is Senior Research Fellow at FRIDE.
