John Prendergast

**John Prendergast** at Djabal Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad
	John Prendergast at Djabal Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad
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John Prendergast is Co-Founder of the Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity. During the Clinton administration, Prendergast was involved in a number of peace processes in Africa while he was director of African Affairs at the National Security Council and Special Advisor at the Department of State. Prendergast has also worked for members of Congress, the United Nations, human rights organizations and think tanks, as well as having been a youth counselor and basketball coach in the United States.

He has authored over eight books on Africa, including Not on Our Watch, a New York Times bestseller and NAACP non-fiction book of the year that he co-authored with actor Don Cheadle. Prendergast is now working on two new books for publication by Random House, one that focuses on his 25 years in the Big Brother program, and the other on human rights and peace activism.

Prendergast has helped produce a number of documentaries, and he consults on scripts for movies and for television shows, including an episode of NBC’s "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," which focused on child soldiers. He also has taken a number of television news programs to Africa, including "Nightline" and "The Lehrer Newshour," and has been part of a series of episodes of CBS' "60 Minutes" which earned an Emmy Award for Best Continuing News Coverage. With NBA stars Tracy McGrady, Baron Davis, and Derek Fisher, he co-founded the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program, which connects schools in the United States with schools in the Darfurian refugee camps. He also helped create the Raise Hope for Congo Campaign aimed at ending violence against women and girls in the Congo, and is currently helping to produce a series of videos highlighting the issue of Congo’s conflict minerals.

His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The International Herald Tribune, and he has been profiled in Vanity Fair, Men's Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, GQ Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Capitol File, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Prendergast travels regularly to Africa's war zones on fact-finding missions, peace-making initiatives, and awareness-raising trips. He is a visiting professor at the University of San Diego and the American University in Cairo.

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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast, published by Hyperion, 2007 ISBN 1401303358, 9781401303358

Crafting Peace: Strategies to Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States, by Sasha Lezhnev, John Prendergast, published by Lexington Books, 2006 ISBN 0739117653, 9780739117651

Blood and Soil: Land, Politics and Conflict Prevention in Zimbabwe and South Africa, Principal author of the South Africa Text (and a major contributor to ICG's earlier reporting on Zimbabwe, upon which this report partly draws}, John Prendergast, published by International Crisis Group, 2004 ISBN 0976085305, ISBN 978-0976085300

God, Oil & Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan, by John Prendergast, published by International Crisis Group, (Africa Report, 39), January 28, 2002 ASIN: B000FPCBP

Crisis Response: Humanitarian Band-aids in Sudan and Somalia, by John Prendergast, Inc NetLibrary, NetLibrary, Inc., published by Center of Concern, 1997 ISBN 0585380309, 9780585380308

Frontline Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa, by John Prendergast, Center of Concern (Washington, D.C.), published by L. Rienner, 1996 ISBN 155587696X, 9781555876968

Civilian Devastation: Abuses by All Parties in the War in Southern Sudan, by Jemera Rone, John Prendergast, Karen Sorensen, Human Rights Watch/Africa, Human Rights Watch (Organization), published by Human Rights Watch, 1994 ISBN 1564321290, 9781564321299

Without Troops & Tanks: The Emergency Relief Desk and the Cross Border Operation Into Eritrea and Tigray, by Mark R. Duffield, John Prendergast, published by The Red Sea Press, 1994 ISBN 1569020035, 9781569020036

Peace, Development, and People of the Horn of Africa, by John Prendergast, Bread for the World (Organization). Institute on Hunger & Development, Center of Concern (Washington, D.C.), published by Center of Concern, 1992 ISBN 0962805823, 9780962805820