The Dole Institute of Politics Thursday night opened its fall programing with a conversation about the genocide in Darfur.Featuring two formers U.S. ambassadors, Robert Beecroft and Edward Brynn, hundreds of students and community members turned out for the 90 minute program. The most popular question when Jonathan Earle, the institute’s interim director, opened up the discussion to questions from the audience was “how can _I_ stop genocide, from here in Kansas?”Brynn and Beecroft both said that the best first step was attending a program like that one at the Dole Institute, becoming involved with charities and NGOs – non-governmental organizations – which they agreed are far more able to react to violent situations than large governments.And the speakers drew their largest round of applause when they reminded the audience of a specific portion of the United States Constitution. Beecroft told the audience to remember that the president of the United States may be the commander-in-chief of the army and the navy, but he is actually a servant of the people. If the people want an end to genocide, he said, then it’s the president’s duty to act.The two speakers, who bring backgrounds in the Bosnian genocide and the Rwandan genocide said that the international community has to make a choice with how to deal with events like the massacres in Darfur and the Congolese basin. There are a variety of tools available, and it doesn’t always mean military action, they said, but until the economic disparity around the world is reduced, there will continue to be these kinds of episodes.