The National Council of Churches USA: Darfur
The National Council of Churches USA, representing mainline Protestant, Orthodox, African-American and peace churches, posted resources about its advocacy for Darfur.
The National Council of Churches USA, representing mainline Protestant, Orthodox, African-American and peace churches, posted resources about its advocacy for Darfur.
World Vision is a Christian relief and development agency working on poverty reduction worldwide. World Vision president Richard Stearns’ book The Hole in Our Gospel won the 2010 Christian Book of the Year award. One focus of its work is sustainable development, including microfinance — it opened a microlending website this spring and has already attracted $385,000 and made more than 1,250 […]
Evangelicals for Darfur was a campaign by 20 prominent progressive and conservative evangelical leaders to bring an end to the killing in Darfur. It was organized by Sojourners/Call to Renewal, led by the Rev. Jim Wallis, in partnership with the Save Darfur Coalition. Contact Tim King, Chief Communications Officer.
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami, Fla., has headed the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ International Policy Committee, which pressed for more action to stop the killings in Darfur.
American Jewish World Service “works to realize human rights and end poverty in the developing world.” AJWS founded the Save Darfur Coalition, an alliance of more than 170 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations.
Morton Abramowitz is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former employee of the U.S. State Department.
Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Somerville, Mass. He was a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He studies the social, political and health dimensions of war, famine and genocide. He is the author […]
Samuel Totten is professor emeritus of education at the University of Arkansas’ College of Education and Health Professions. He is co-editor of Genocide in Darfur (Routledge, 2006), editor of Genocide at the Millennium (Transaction Publishers, 2005) and author of Teaching About Genocide (Information Age, 2004). He was a member of the Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide […]
Samantha Power is Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the National Security Council. She was a professor of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She wrote A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books, 2002), which […]