Yearly Archives: 2009
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Uganda: How Not To Disarm
Everyone supports “uniform, complete, and balanced across all tribal and ethnic groups.” People are unanimous that they “want peace and they see disarmament as the best ... -
Celebrity Activists: A Poor Imitation of UNICEF
The celebrity factor in humanitarian politics is historically a recent phenomenon. The role of celebrities was pioneered by UNICEF in the person of James Grant, who ... -
Challenges facing Kenya: decreeing and establishing a constitutional order
There is a renewed interest in a new constitutional order in Kenya. A bad constitution is blamed for the post-election crisis, allowing the president to pack ... -
AIDS and Peacekeepers: Reason for Good Policy, Not Fear
In the early days of AMIS deployment, the Sudan government raised fears that peacekeepers from sub-Saharan Africa would be bringing HIV/AIDS into Darfur, and talked about ... -
Scramble for Africa: Darfur Intervention and the USA – A Book that Needs to be Read -and Debated-
Two things are immediately noticeable about Kevin Funk’s and Steven Fake’s Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA. The first is the long list of excerpts ... -
Reports of Oil in Darfur are Exaggerated
Claims that the war in Darfur is intimately linked to vast untapped oil reserves have been made ever since the conflict began and are revived in ... -
Is Darfur a Low-Intensity Conflict?
What is a “˜low-intensity conflict’? It is still a conflict. Even though lethal violence is low, the other other dimensions to the conflict may continue with ... -
The UN in Sudan: A Mission that Hates Success
Reporting to the U.N. Security Council on the situation in Darfur last April, the U.N.-African Union Joint Special Representative to Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, revealed to members ... -
International Justice Debate at “African Arguments”
At ‘African Arguments’ there is a vigorous debate on international justice ongoing. The spark for the debate was a series of postings on justice and accountability ... -
Saving international justice in Africa
At the conclusion of its Summit in Sirte, Libya, on July 1, 2009, the Assembly of Heads of State and Governments of the African Union (AU) ...