ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to provide some answers to this challenging question: How can genocide scholars and the anti-genocide movement help create the necessary political will within governments, particularly within the US government, to employ national power to stop genocides? The United Nations Security Council agreed to some watered-down economic sanctions against the Khartoum government for its grave crimes in Darfur and the International Criminal Court indicted Sudan's president, Omar Hasanal-Bashir, for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The international community of genocide scholars contributed to the international effort by teaching, researching, and publishing on the Darfur genocide. Given the many levels and forms of obstruction, national and international, it is in some ways surprising that any progress at all was made in singling out the perpetrators and mitigating the suffering of the victims of the Darfur genocide. In an ideal world, the moral imperative would be sufficient to stop genocide.
