How Genocides End

My fourth posting on the theme of “How Genocides End” applies the lessons of the inquiry to the case of Darfur. It is, of course, far from evident that the legal definition of genocide, as found in the Genocide Convention,

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Having originally intended this to be a three-part posting, I am inserting an extra short essay focusing on Sudan, before applying the framework to the case of Darfur. The Sudanese civil wars of the last quarter century have witnessed perhaps

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The project ‘How Genocides End’ included the 2004 ‘Back from the Brink’ seminar at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the SSRC Webforum, and two seminars at Harvard, co-convened by Jens Meierhenrich, during 2008. What are the preliminary conclusions? This posting is

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This is the first of three postings on the topic ‘How Genocides End,’ a topic which has interested me for ten years. This first posting explains my personal interest in the subject, sparked by work in the Nuba Mountains in

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