Humanity United

The ENOUGH Project is working to help build a permanent constituency to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity. Understanding that genocide and war crimes are not inevitable, ENOUGH seeks to create noise and action to prevent such atrocities from taking place. The Project’s mission is to help people understand, in very practical ways, how they can make a difference.

ENOUGH conducts intensive field research in countries facing genocide and crimes against humanity, develops practical policies for addressing these crises, and shares this knowledge as a way to empower citizens and groups working for change. ENOUGH’s initial work has been focused on a number of African countries facing grave challenges, including Sudan, northern Uganda, eastern Congo, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.

The ENOUGH Project’s strategy is to energize diverse communities – including religious groups, students, community organizations, business leaders, activists, and others – to ensure that their voices are heard on some of the most pressing foreign policy and moral challenges in the world today. In framing its policy prescriptions, ENOUGH developed what they call a 3P approach: promoting peace, protecting civilians, and punishing perpetrators. ENOUGH also focuses on a fourth P – prevention – and is working to develop the policies, tools, and investments that can prevent crimes against humanity and genocide.

ENOUGH’s actions following the decision by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to seek genocide charges against the president of Sudan are illustrative of the Project’s strategic approach. The day of the prosecutor’s announcement, ENOUGH released a widely read policy report making the case that the charges would provide positive momentum for the peace process, and conducted interviews with The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC and other major news outlets making the same case. The next day, ENOUGH used conference calls to mobilize hundreds of activists around the United States and educate them about the nature of the charges and their implications. ENOUGH encouraged a letter-to-the-editor campaign making the case that accountability and justice help promote peace and prevent future abuses. Enough also posted across numerous blogs and shared its policy perspectives with other major groups, such as the Save Darfur Coalition and the Genocide Intervention Network, as part of a concerted effort to end the continuing tragedy in Darfur.

Humanity United, working with the Center for American Progress, sponsored the launch of the ENOUGH Project in 2007. John Norris is ENOUGH’s executive director. Veteran Africa experts Gayle Smith and John Prendergast are the organization’s founders and co-chairs.

About This Photo

This picture was taken by ENOUGH policy analyst Julia Spiegel in April 2008 on a field visit to northern Uganda. The children featured in the picture are survivors of the war in northern Uganda, and were either former abductees of the Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army or orphaned because of LRA attacks. However, the children now attend the Laroo Boarding Primary School for War Affected Children in Gulu, where they receive education and housing provided by the governments of Belgium and Uganda. Although the children of northern Uganda have lived their entire lives in a war torn nation, where there is hope there can be peace.(ENOUGH Project)

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