AMBASSADOR J.D. BINDENAGEL
[Spring 2008, Volume IX]
For those of us who have confronted the issue of genocide, whether as students, scholars, public officials or concerned citizens, the film “Blood Diamond” speaks vividly to the horrors of the war in Sierra Leone financed by trade in illicit diamonds and the human cost.
We know that peace is no easy task; peace did not break out with the end of the cold war as we had hoped. Instead, we descended quickly into a world of terror, genocide and war. Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, …

ADAM LICHTENHELD
[Spring 2008, Volume IX]
While ongoing atrocities in Darfur, Sudan receive due labels of “genocide” from the international community, controversy and confusion continue to surround attempts to classify violence occurring 150 miles south of the Darfur border. In northern Uganda, nomadic rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have terrorized citizens in an ongoing 21-year insurgency, the longest standing conflict in Africa. The situation’s unique character—and why it proves so difficult to label—stem from the fact that it encompasses two conflicts in one. Victims face a dual threat; caught between …