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The Crisis In Darfur: An Opportunity For The United Nations To Reclaim Its Status As Standard Bearer For Peace And Security For The International Community, Leilani F. Battiste Feb 2009

The Crisis In Darfur: An Opportunity For The United Nations To Reclaim Its Status As Standard Bearer For Peace And Security For The International Community, Leilani F. Battiste

Theses and Dissertations

Since early 2003, the western Darfur region of the Sudan has been subjected to a massive campaign of ethnic violence that has claimed the lives of almost 400,000 civilians, and has created nearly 2 million internally-displaced refugees or refugees that have fled to camps in neighboring Chad. Despite the unmistakable tragedy that has occurred and continues to occur, the international community has utterly failed to respond. The United Nations has taken almost no leadership role in abating or even stopping the crisis. Debate over whether the term "genocide" should be used to describe the ethnic cleansing and displacement of nearly …


Kids, Cops, & Communities, Us Department Of Justice, Carnegie Corporation Of New York Jun 1998

Kids, Cops, & Communities, Us Department Of Justice, Carnegie Corporation Of New York

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

This report is designed to help law enforcement administrators and officers understand and institute a strategy to help prevent violence - community-oriented policing services carried out in collaboration with youth-serving organizations. Popular police prevention approaches such as D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training), and the McGruff "Take a Bite out of Crime" campaigns have helped prepare police officers to work hand in hand in a variety of ways with local affiliates of national youth-serving organizations. In a growing number of cities, police are working with youth groups and finding that violence involving youth is rapidly …