Books and Articles Relevant to Darfur

Both the privately-owned press in the global North and the state-owned press in the global South let the people of Darfur down. When there was coverage of their plight, the news was distorted by four lenses: current national interest of

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Fighting Over Darfur By Alex Thurston Rebecca Hamilton’s Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide raises important and troubling questions about the relationship between America’s domestic politics and African conflicts.  Hamilton thoughtfully probes the limits of

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Jerome Tubiana. Chroniques du Darfour. Grenoble: Editions Glénat, in partnership with Amnesty International, 2010. ISBN978-2-7234-7831-1. This is a unique contribution to the growing field of Dar Fur studies, which brings to bear on the war in Dar Fur the unique

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The Small Arms Survey’s Sudan Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) has launched a new ‘Sudan Facts and Figures’ web resource that synthesizes and presents more than four years of field-based research and analysis on armed groups, arms flows, and arms

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24 Hours for Darfur recently released “Darfurian Voices,” a report detailing the results of the first ever representative survey of Darfurian refugees’ opinions on peace, justice, and reconciliation. The US-based non-profit research organization spent four months in the 12 Darfurian

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West-end of the Border is a book documenting the lives of refugees taking shelter at camps along the Chad-Sudan border, all the way from Abeche to Bahai. The stories were documented on the immediate aftermath of the height of violence

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A new report from the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Sudan: No Easy Ways Ahead, contains essays by leading Sudanese scholars and analysts of Sudan. Towards the end of the six-year interim period defined in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), Sudan is

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A special issue of the journal, Genocide Studies and Prevention, focuses on the case of Darfur. It includes an article by Alan Kuperman, examining the political calculations of the Darfur rebels, focusing in particular on whether the promise of an

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Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader, edited by Salah Hassan and Carina Ray, is a compendium of articles by leading social scientists on the Darfur crisis, including extensive appendices of original documents such as the

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Jérôme Tubiana has published an article under this name in a recent issue of the London Review of Books. It provides a rare, ethnographic, field-based account of the conflict in eastern Chad, including both its links to Darfur and its

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