Why an outside peacekeeping force cannot easily settle Sudan

What policy should Western powers adopt toward Sudan to save as many lives as possible in the long term?

Outside intervention can freeze violence, but without sustained logistics and a locally legitimate settlement it is unlikely to produce durable peace.

Foreign intervention in Sudan faces limits of expeditionary access, supply, available forces, and political appetite. Recent Western experience in Somalia is used as a warning, while Egypt has serious commitments around its own borders. One position is that occupation could reduce killing in the short term; the objection is that an occupation would need to last for decades to do more than postpone the conflict. A lasting settlement would have to be acceptable to local communities and institutions, even where its terms conflict with outside preferences. Partition is also proposed, then challenged because smaller states could face intervention by neighbours and renewed local fighting. South Sudan illustrates that concern within the exchange.