Navigating Nuances

Last week, Julie Flint wrote:

"The people who will "save" Darfur are the Darfurians. And they may do it under our noses -- slowly, painfully and without our assistance, whatever we eventually choose to do." Flint suggests that activists are ineffective with a shallow understanding of the contextual situation of Darfur, Sudan, and the region."

Does that absolve us from the responsibility to protect - or try to protect? Are the merits of academia lost by taking action? Or is action ineffective when it lacks the scholarly background of an expert?

STAND responds here.