It's About Time: Responding to the Crisis in Darfur
Often students learn about events
as historical moments with distinct beginning, middles and ends. But,
what happens when students have to confront a current event that has no
end? How do people determine their actions when they lack information
about what will happen next? This question is even more important to
ask when we are dealing with a humanitarian crisis, such as the
genocide in Darfur. In 2003, the media first began covering the
violence in the Darfur region. Since then, journalists have written
about hundreds or thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, and
countless examples of other acts of violence, such as rapes and the
burning of villages.
