Yearly Archives: 2009
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The AU Panel Listens to Darfur
The AU Panel on Darfur has completed its fourth mission to Sudan, with the purpose of consulting a wide range of Darfurian and other Sudanese stakeholders ... -
No Single Way to Deal with Atrocities
Adam Smith’s book posits that international criminal tribunals, especially those of the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR), don’t actually do justice for the people of ... -
“After Genocide”: Continuing the Discussion
It is a rare treat for an author to be given the opportunity to continue the discussion about his or her book in the wake of ... -
Al-Amud al-Akhdar: Strata of Conflict in Darfur’s Deep South
The establishment, development and destruction of the settlement of al-Amud al-Akhdar in Darfur’s deep south forest belt provides a microcosm of Sudan’s modernization projects and their ... -
From Human Rights Reporting to the Dominant Media Narrative of Darfur
To a considerable extent, crises in far-off lands are defined by foreigners and not by those living through them, which then creates a perceived moral imperative ... -
From Mamdani to Mbeki: Radically Reconfiguring the Darfur Story in Theory and Practice (3)
III. The Mbeki Mission and the Way Forward Mamdani is right on target in his criticism of the Save Darfur tendency to offer simplistic solutions and ... -
From Mamdani to Mbeki: Radically Reconfiguring the Darfur Story in Theory and Practice (2)
II. The State, War and Sudanese Identity Mamdani has in fact written not one book, but several. His attack on the enthusiastic but misinformed international response ... -
From Mamdani to Mbeki: Radically Reconfiguring the Darfur Story in Theory and Practice (1)
I. Recolonisation without Responsibility As many commentators have already pointed out, Mahmood Mamdani’s recent book, Saviors and Survivors has almost single-handedly shifted the debate on Darfur ... -
When Justice and Judicial Proceedings Part Ways
Reading Adam Smith’s book now, after the intense debates around the ICC’s arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir, provokes a deep sadness at how impoverished ... -
What Does the Abyei Ruling Mean for the Missiriya?
Due to the Court of Arbitration decision in The Hague, around 1460 square kilometers which were inhabited by two clans of the Missiriya tribe (Mazaghna and ...