November 7, 2009
Live Blogging Two: Breakout session Carrots and Sticks
Jerry Fowler: John Prendergast and others put together a door one, door two policy for Sudan. If Sudan acts good, then they get door one: rewards. Or what we call carrots. If Sudan acts bad, they get door two: punishments. Or in other words, sticks. Fowler, the Head of Save Darfur is the moderator.
Prendergast is the first speaker. As usual he is both intense, smart, and jovial. He talks about his being impressed with the Obama administration for creating not just Door One and Door Two – but within Door Two, the punishments there is a mystery door that could involve military action.
This government is responsible for the murder of countless peoples. They’ve used starvation as a weapon routinely. In the absence of sticks and carrots we’d be seeing numbers that are much much higher. International deployment, international engagement have to keep happening. We need to engage very very robustly. For that diplomacy to succeed, that diplomacy has to be backed with real leverage. The leverage does not grow on trees. It does not exist in the universe on its own. We have twenty years since 1989 of empirical data to understand what has made the National Ruling Party in Khartoum move to do the better thing.
This session is amazing but I am leaving to go to Congo 101 session.
