More than two thousand miles away and a decade apart, two governments persecuted a campaign of systematic violence, rape, destruction and mass murder against its' own citizens. In the early 1990s the world struggled with the concept of sovereignty and the appropriateness of intervening when a conflict is contained within a single country's own borders. In the end, the international community intervened on behalf of the Bosnian Muslims, but not before more than 200,000 people died and 2.7 million were displaced. As a result of this conflict and the Rwandan conflict, the UN developed and implemented the Responsibility to Protect Resolution in 2005. Despite this, the world is standing by, watching an eerily similar situation unfold in the western region of Sudan known as Darfur. Four years into that "internal conflict", as many as 500 thousand people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the similarities between the conflicts of Bosnia and Darfur in regards to situation and world reaction. It strives to show that despite years of rhetoric and incremental actions by the international community, it was the outright use of force by the US and NATO that brought the Bosnian conflict to an end. The international community is following the same template with regards to the situation in Darfur and this paper proposes that in the end, as in the Balkans, it will be diplomatic actions coupled with military force that solves the conflict in Sudan.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
