Yearly Archives: 2008
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Complex Emergencies and the Humanitarian Enterprise
Posted by Angela Raven-Roberts. David Keen has written a very readable and approachable book tackling a complex subject and tracing its multiple representations, interpretations and modes ... -
Putting the Complex into Complex Emergencies
Posted on behalf of Michael Barnett. David Keen certainly puts the complex into complex emergencies. Combining critical theorizing and detailed knowledge of conflict zones around the ... -
Reading Wars Actively
Complex Emergencies emanates from lectures renowned for their capacity to challenge MSc students (I was one of them) and encourage new ways of thinking. The book ... -
Complex Emergencies
On page 115 of his recent book Complex Emergencies, David Keen writes, “For those familiar with this famine [1988 in southwest Kordofan and Bahr el Ghazal] ... -
Is Sudan a “Post Islamist” State? III
This last few days, this blog has launched a discussion on political Islam in Sudan, focusing on the recent book The First Islamist Republic: Development and ... -
Is Sudan a “Post-Islamist” State? II
Part II of The Sudanese Islamists’ Wars: Processes of Disintegration from Khalil to Turabi Khalil’s War The mutual hostility among the Islamists has been merciless. However, ... -
Is Sudan a “Post-Islamist” State?
Part I: The Sudanese Islamists’ Wars: Processes of Disintegration from al-Turabi to Khalil In an interview published on 22 May in the London based Saudi Daily ... -
Can Sudan Survive?
The modern history of Sudan is riddled with bloodshed, destruction and squandered chances for peace and democracy. Consistently, the worst case scenario comes to pass and, ... -
Land and Power: the Case of the Zaghawa
This post is also available in French (PDF, 96KB). Land has often been described as a key motivation for the Arabs and non-Arabs who actively participated ... -
Examining the Rebels–At Last
In the wake of JEM’s attack on Omdurman, a number of correspondents have urged closer, critical examination of the rebel movements. This is long overdue. In ...