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Carla Koppell
Carla Koppell is director of the Initiative for Inclusive Security and the Washington office of Hunt Alternatives Fund. She was senior adviser and, before that, interim director of the Conflict Prevention Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has also held positions at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Women parliamentarians push for peace in Sudan
07 Apr 2008 15:04:00 GMT
Author: Carla Koppell

This month, the U.N. Security Council will extend the stay of peacekeepers for Sudan's north and south, and debate the ongoing crisis in Darfur. It will be a sad, concrete recognition that signature of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) - which officially ended the conflict in southern Sudan - and several rounds of negotiation on Darfur have not translated into stability and prosperity on the ground.

Peace will only be achieved if we start doing things differently. We must make more effective use of the constructive forces that do exist in Sudan, particularly within civil society and among women.

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