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Open access, freely available online Policy Forum How Should the Health Community Respond to Violent Political Confl ict? We must defi ne better practice and promote organisational learning Anthony B. Zwi iolent political confl ict, and its Sudan—Confl ict and Health impact, is again on the front The current crisis in Darfur refl ects a devastatingly acute episode in the chronic Vpages—in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan. While the situation in Darfur is internal confl ict that has plagued Sudan since 1983. The cost of this confl ict has been enormous: over 2 million lives lost, over 628,000 refugees from Sudan in neighbouring now particularly urgent (see sidebar) countries, and over 4 million people internally displaced [1]. [1,2,3,4,5], there are many other In southern Sudan, the confl ict has led to widespread ill health and has severely settings in which complex political compromised the well-being of women and children. Indicators of immunisation, nutrition, emergencies are undermining health primary school completion, and antenatal care are among the worst in the world. About service provision and threatening 95,000 children under fi ve years old died last year, most from preventable disease [2]. human rights. Such emergencies have Statistics from UNICEF are chilling: ‘A girl born in southern Sudan has a better chance a direct impact on health (see T