Blog Posts by John C. Danforth

John C. Danforth, a former U.S. Senator from Missouri, Special Envoy for Peace in Sudan, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is on the board of Refugees International. The following originally appeared on the Huffington Post. 

Early in his presidency George Bush saw an opportunity to end a long civil war in south Sudan, and in 2001 he asked me to be his special envoy. The war between north and south Sudan had raged for over two decades, with two million dead and over four million displaced. Many believed that peace would be impossible to achieve. Yet on January 9, 2005 the government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).