More Darfur
The United Nations new Secretary-General, Ban ki-Moon, has had an op-ed published [you may require registration to view the article] in The Washington Post today that addresses the situation in Darfur. The article refers to many of the ideas that we raised in class, with as especially intriguing implicit invocation of Homer-Dixon:
Nor is the crisis confined to Darfur. It has spilled over borders, destabilizing the region. Darfur is also an environmental crisis — a conflict that grew at least in part from desertification, ecological degradation and a scarcity of resources, foremost among them water.
Read the whole thing to get the Secretary-General’s accounts of the impressions he gained having visited the area for one week recently.
