Founder of the Enough Project, a nonprofit human-rights organization; former Senior Advisor to the International Crisis Group and author of eight books on Africa, including Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond; former Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council
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