Monthly Archives: March 2009
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Do Darfur’s IDPs Have an Urban Future?
Most of Darfur’s internally-displaced camps are urban settlements in all but name. In geographical terms the most striking impact of the last seven years has been ... -
Sudan: Double Standards?
Abd al-Wahab Abdalla (25 March) says “The worst massacre of the last 12 months was by JEM! It killed 128 Meidob over 2 days.” There have ... -
Agency Expulsions in Sudan: Consequences and Next Steps
By Sara Pantuliano, Susanne Jaspars and Deepayan Basu Ray The expulsion of 13 international organisations and the suspension of three national NGOs by the government of ... -
Darfur as Biafra: Our Vulnerability and Their Capacity
The response of many to Biafra forty years ago was not just against the blockage of aid by General Yakubu Gowon but against the way aid ... -
Grading the Prosecutor–And the Bench
My posting on the ICC Prosecutor’s application for leave to appeal against the Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision to reject the genocide charge drew some fierce criticism from ... -
Burundian Voices
Review of Life After Violence: A people’s story of Burundi, by Peter Uvin. Zed Books, London, 2008. I have a young friend who comes from the ... -
Darfur’s Politics of Numbers
For Darfur watchers, the death toll is as much a political statement as an expression of fact. For those with just a passing interest in the ... -
INGOs Expelled from Darfur: Time to Acknowledge the Smoking and Loaded Gun
Yes, nobody wants to see Darfuris in the IDP camps and elsewhere suffer needlessly. And that “nobody” also includes, yes, the Sudanese government – as noted ... -
Genocide by Force of Habit?
John Maynard Keynes was once irritated by a half-witted critic: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” In 2004 I ... -
Genocide: Criminal Behavior and Law
Alex de Waal, Joachim Savelsberg, Alex Hinton, Tony Oberschall, Dan Chirot, and Scott Straus form a remarkably distinguished group of genocide scholars. We have benefited from ...