Yearly Archives: 2008
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“How Genocides End” (1)
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 ... -
Kenana: A Promise of Sweetness
The Kenana sugar project, inaugurated by President Jaafar Nimeiri in 1975, aimed to be the biggest integrated sugar plant in the world. With 40,000 hectares of ... -
Alex profiled in Nov. 08 Harper’s
A young, NYC-based novelist, Nick McDonell, asked Alex (his former Harvard prof) if he could accompany him on his recent travels into Sudan. The upshot is ... -
What Matters?
In 2004, Marcus Bleasdale visited Chad and parts of Darfur and took a series of compelling black and white photographs. Some of them are reproduced in ... -
The Double Edge of Celebrity Interest in Darfur
The Nigerian minority rights activist and insurgent leader Ken Saro-Wiwa said, “It’s one thing being an issue, another achieving our aims.” Two years afterwards he was ... -
Conflict Management and Opportunity Cost
The reaction to the likely indictment of President al-Bashir stands as a microcosm for the international response to the Darfur crisis: there is a lot of ... -
Illiquid, Toxic and Not an Asset: End the ICC’s involvement in Sudan
It has been unfazed by the turmoil in US financial markets; but Sudan faces a bigger exogenous toxic threat to its stability if the demand by ... -
On Paying the Price to Settle Darfur
The Sudanese polity runs on political credit notes. The big issues are constantly deferred because the political price of coming to a decision is too high, ... -
UN/EU Midterm Review on Chad – A few thoughts
On September 12, the UN Secretary-General released the UN/EU midterm review of the UN and EU missions in Chad. A key finding of the review was ... -
Africa’s Position on the ICC
Yesterday’s meeting of the AU Peace and Security Council, held in New York, confirmed Africa’s push-back against the ICC. As feared by African human rights activists, ...