Darfur and the Genocide Debate

Foreign Affairs - Darfur and the Genocide Debate - Scott Straus:
From Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005

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Summary: As western Sudan continues to suffer, much international attention has focused on whether to call what is happening there 'genocide.' Yet once the term was invoked, it did not trigger outside intervention. Terminology turns out to matter far less than was expected. And once more, the world has dithered while people die.

Scott Straus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison."