Interesting take on resolving Darfur crisis...

A new chance for the people of Darfur

The regime is not monolithic. Factions within the regime might prove supportive of new policies aimed at tempering the climate of violence in Sudan, decreasing its trade dependency on China, improving conditions for refugees and lowering international tensions. Such policies might include:

Normalising diplomatic relations in exchange for removing obstacles to the deployment of UN-AU forces in Darfur.

Replacing sanctions on Sudan with new investment opportunities and gradually forgiving its foreign debt in exchange for achievement of benchmarks tied to repatriating refugees, rebuilding villages, and demobilising the Janjaweed;

Calling on not only the government, but also the rebel forces, over which the West has some influence, to bargain in good faith;

Engaging China's desire for international prestige by encouraging it to assume a public role in designing and overseeing repatriation, demobilisation, and vocational programmes;

Offering aid to the Sudanese in rebuilding the tribal reconciliation councils that were destroyed during the civil war;

Reintegrating Sudan into the international community through academic exchanges, conferences, political visits and the like;

Strengthening the AU, which Western analysts have consistently underestimated with almost indescribable arrogance, in order to foster African solutions to African problems.

The emerging policy consensus towards Sudan is predicated on an approach that has already undermined respect for Western values throughout the non-Western world. Its interventionist measures won't work. They are unrealistic and, ultimately, counterproductive. There is no time to lose in trying something new.