Nonviolent Solutions Explored in Resolving Darfur-Sudan Conflict

Interview with Chris Doucot, Catholic Worker Peace Team member, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

A recently signed peace treaty between the Sudanese government -- based in the north-- and rebels in the south, has hopefully ended one of Africa's longest-running wars. But the killing and displacement of Sudanese in the western province of Darfur continues. The conflict has resulted in an estimated 300,000 killed, with about two million displaced, including internal refugees and those who have fled to neighboring Chad.

Washington has labeled attacks by the central government of Sudan on the people of Darfu as genocide, where a rebel group has been fighting government forces and Arab militias known as the janjaweed. The African Union has 1,000 troops on the ground working as observers, out of a force of 4,000 the coalition has pledged to deploy in order to stop the killing in Darfur.

The Bush administration is now attempting to block a referral of war crimes committed in Darfur to the International Criminal Court, working instead to have the cases adjudicated by a tribunal run by the U.N. and African Union in Tanzania. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Chris Doucot of Hartford, Conn., who was part of a four-member Catholic Worker Peace Team that spent two weeks in Darfur in December.

Contact the Catholic Worker Peace Team by calling (860) 724-7066, or visit their website at www.hartfordcatholicworker.org

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