The political geometry of Sudan defies resolution. No sooner had a framework been agreed for the provisional settlement of the North-South conflict in 2002 than the war in Darfur blew away all conventional wisdom about how the country could achieve

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Julie Flint and I have an Oped in today’s Washington Post. Is the International Criminal Court losing its way in Darfur? We fear it is. Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo’s approach is fraught with risk — for the victims of the

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The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor would surely agree that the mediators of peace agreements need to be attentive to the requirements of justice. However, in the complex ethical battleground of twenty-first century armed conflict, there is also a strong case to

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Last Sunday the Washington Post ran a column by me in the section This Writing Life. It begins: Some years ago in a rebel-held enclave of Sudan, I met a man whom I had reported as assassinated. He was chief

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The term “Islamism” has two common uses in the study of contemporary Sudan, what I will call “the descriptive” and “the analytical.” Descriptively speaking, Islamism refers to the historical phenomenon of what is called in Arabic al-haraka al-islaamiyya (the Islamic

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Wednesday’s report in the Sudan Tribune re-ignited the debate over whether the Sudan Government might hand over the two men wanted by the ICC for crimes in Darfur. The two are Ahmad Haroun, now Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs,

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Abdullahi Gallab recalled in his posting of June 18 that the term “post-Islamism” was coined by the sociologist Asef Bayat. Bayat used the term in his now famous 1996 article “The Coming of a Post-Islamist Society” to characterize a new

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If peace and justice in Sudan are on a collision course, one reason why is the way in which the Darfur peace talks and the accountability process have been structured, so that each process has been isolated from the other.

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The argument presented here is that through nothing more than the simple invocation of basic principles of law and criminal justice necessarily associated with criminal court proceeding, the new global tribunals are enacting a dramatic re-alignment in the global balance

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On 13 June, the ICC’s trial chamber stayed proceedings in the Lubanga case due to the prosecution’s habitual labeling of a wide range of materials received from third parties as confidential and non-disclosable–a practice which the Court considered in its

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