Monthly Archives: February 2009
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The Trouble with Aid
In the economic turmoil currently affecting the industrialised world, the arguments I set out in my book, The Trouble With Aid: Why Less Could Mean More ... -
Genocide: On Law, Sociology and Accountability
John Hagan will receive The Stockholm Prize in Criminology on June 23, 2009, in Stockholm for his work on genocide in Darfur and the Balkans. Several ... -
ICC vs. Bashir: Debating the Interests of Justice
Sadia al Imam writes The allocation of responsibility for issues of justice, peace and democracy between the OTP and the UN Security Council is an important ... -
The ICC vs. Bashir: Debating Genocidal Intent
Daniel Agundo writes: Genocide may generally be a crime committed as an outcome of a political ideology or plan for violent societal transformation, requiring a socio-political ... -
The ICC vs. Bashir: Debating the Mode of Liability
I have had a number of interesting questions and challenges to different aspects of my critique of the Bashir application. I am bunching them together thematically ... -
Darfur and Chad: A Fragmented Ethnic Mosaic
One year has passed since the rebel offensive on N’Djamena almost toppled Deby. The date of the rebel offensive was not chosen at random: the rebels ... -
Sudan’s Economy and the Financial Crisis
In the last ten years, the Sudanese economy has undergone a drastic change. Instead of been an agriculture-based economy it has turned into an oil-dependant economy ... -
Self-Protection versus Helping Survivors
On substance, much of what Darfur and the Crime of Genocide contains has been available from Joyce Apsel (ed.) Darfur: Genocide before Our Eyes published by ... -
A Hippocratic Africa Policy
The past decade of U.S. Africa policy has made some wish most for policies that would “first, do no harm.” A Hippocratic test could be useful ... -
Does Criminology Offer a Useful Model?
Much of the contemporary analysis of genocides has taken on a legalistic tone inspired by the revival since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s of interest ...