Yearly Archives: 2009
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Context be damned: reactions against Saviors and Survivors from the R2P camp
As an eighth-grader learning about American slavery, I had a fantasy. I imagined that some elite Marines and I could outfit ourselves in the latest combat ... -
Adam Smith Responds to Daniel Agundo
Daniel Agundo’s commentary about After Genocide is thought provoking. He is correct in emphasizing that processes towards international development, especially those developments that seek to provide ... -
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
In his provocative book, After Genocide: Bringing the Devil to Justice, Adam Smith makes a slightly barbed remark to the effect that international justice is a ... -
Neither Truth Commissions nor Domestic Justice are Straightforward
Neither truth commissions nor domestic trials are as black and white as Professor Heller’s critique of my comments seems to argue. First, Professor Heller is concerned ... -
Leashing Kenya’s Dogs of War: A Theoretical Assessment
From the standpoint of constitutional law, the handing over of the Waki envelope to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) represents the ceding of ... -
On the Reactionary Nature of Sudanese Provincial “Revolutions” – Liberating the Bantustans?
The critique of inequality and monopolization of power in Sudan follows both geographical and class dimensions. The central provinces are vastly richer and better serviced than ... -
President Mbeki on the A.U. Panel’s Approach to Darfur
Last week, President Thabo Mbeki, Chairman of the African Union Panel on Darfur, addressed a press conference in Khartoum. What follows below is a summary of ... -
Lessons from Al-Biruni: “The Character of the Reporters”
In writing Saviors and Survivors Mahmood Mamdani has painstakingly removed the activist smokescreen that has clouded and confused the tragedy of Darfur. His book is a ... -
Towards an Anthropological Analysis of the Human Rights Worldview
In “˜Human Rights Reporting on Darfur: A Genre that Redefines Tragedy‘, posted on this blog on August 21-24, Jayne Blayton states that ‘human rights reports provide ... -
Adam Smith Responds to Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Professor Roht-Arriaza makes several characteristically insightful comments about After Genocide. They have spurred me to continue the conversation. The professor notes that international judicial institutions have ...