Comments on: One Year Later http://standcanada.org/2008/12/15/one-year-later/ Making It Easy to Act Against Genocide Wed, 09 May 2012 12:44:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Scott Fenwick http://standcanada.org/2008/12/15/one-year-later/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Scott Fenwick Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:18:00 +0000 http://standcanada.org/wp/2008/12/15/one-year-later/#comment-33 It's depressing that peace is conflicting with justice, as what's happening in Darfur. The indictments against the Sudanese president threaten any kind of peace, while justice may have to be sacrificed to get peace. This has to be unprecedented.<br/><br/>To keep things short, I believe that this resulted from the lack of coordination internationally amongst Darfur advocates. You had a number of people lobbying the American government to drop the use of its veto on the UN Security Council when the vote for referring Darfur to the ICC came up.<br/><br/>At the same time, we had others lobbying the Security Council to send peacekeepers to Darfur (despite the fact that there's no peace to keep). Both succeeded.<br/><br/>The result: we have the UN under hostage by the same government that's causing the war in the first place. As of 2008, the world can only pursue either peace or justice, but not both at the same time. It’s depressing that peace is conflicting with justice, as what’s happening in Darfur. The indictments against the Sudanese president threaten any kind of peace, while justice may have to be sacrificed to get peace. This has to be unprecedented.

To keep things short, I believe that this resulted from the lack of coordination internationally amongst Darfur advocates. You had a number of people lobbying the American government to drop the use of its veto on the UN Security Council when the vote for referring Darfur to the ICC came up.

At the same time, we had others lobbying the Security Council to send peacekeepers to Darfur (despite the fact that there’s no peace to keep). Both succeeded.

The result: we have the UN under hostage by the same government that’s causing the war in the first place. As of 2008, the world can only pursue either peace or justice, but not both at the same time.

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