Yearly Archives: 2008
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Urbanization and Exploitation
Asif Faiz claims that Khartoum resembles capital cities in “virtually every” developing country. In the sense that, for the first, time the majority of people in ... -
Urbanization: the Path to Development and Democracy?
Mark Duffield’s comments are thoughtful but I would ask him a simple question. Is Khartoum that different from imperial cities like Delhi, Mexico City, Lima., Buenos ... -
Peace in Darfur: Prioritizing or Police Enforcement?
In his comment yesterday, Michael Swigert of Africa Action usefully compares the memorandum that Abdul Mohammed and I submitted to the mediation meeting on March 18, ... -
Whither the Darfur Mediation? (III)
This is the third part of a paper based on a memorandum submitted to an informal consultation on the Darfur mediation. This section is solely the ... -
Whither the Darfur Mediation? (II)
This is the second part of a paper based on a memorandum submitted by Alex de Waal and Abdul Mohammed to the informal consultation on the ... -
Whither the Darfur Mediation? (I)
This is the first in a series of three postings on the challenges facing the UN-AU Mediation. It is an edited version of a paper written ... -
Darfur: Dimensions and Dilemmas of a Complex Crisis
The point of departure for the report, Darfur: Dimensions and Dilemmas of a Complex Situation, published by the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research, ... -
Sanctions, Incentives and Conditionalities in Peacemaking
Powers of Persuasion, a new publication from Conciliation Resources is a series of essays on the role of sanctions, incentives and conditionalities in peacemaking. Alongside theoretical, ... -
On the importance of urban intersection, when integration is not necessarily on the cards
Posted on behalf of AbdouMaliq Simone The discussion that has taken place on this weblog over the last weeks concerning urbanization in the Sudan has raised ... -
Ethnicity, Land, Legitimacy: A Review of “War in Darfur and the Search for Peace”
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace is by far the best and most authoritative introduction to the Darfur crisis that I have read. But ...