ABSTRACT
The United Nations (UN) Security Council passed SCR 1672, which imposed travel and financial sanctions on four specific Sudanese individuals for their role in the on-going genocidal violence in the Darfur region of Sudan and along the Chad-Sudan border. Sanctions permitted big power cooperation as the UN entered the post-cold war era. The unfortunate, but accurate, generalization is that UN sanctions have been a general failure in deterring genocide. But understanding the distinct reasons for this failure across cases is significant in increasing the chances of success in the future. The reform processes were dynamically interactive and resulted in innovations introduced by the Security Council in the 1990s in each category of targeted sanctions. The task of sanctions reform is to increase member states' capacity, and thereby to positively influence their willingness, to implement the measures which the wider global community have deemed necessary to preserve peace and security.
