Yearly Archives: 2009
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The “Seven Deadly Sins” of a Peacemaker
Peacemaking is an art””but increasingly we can apply sound measurements to rate a mediator’s efforts. In the run-up to the long-awaited announcement of the U.S. policy ... -
Abyei: Not a People’s Partition
Last week, the Abyei Arbitration Tribunal, sitting in The Hague, made a technical decision on the status of the findings of the Abyei Boundary Commission, which ... -
The Road To Hell (In Africa) Is Paved With Good (Western) Intentions
The victory of retired general and former acting president Mohamed Ould Abelaziz in the 18 July presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania is another ... -
Sudan: Re-Opening the Mind of the Public
Saviors and Survivors became instantly controversial, probably more from the Darfur context and conflict it seeks to address than for its detailed scholarship and extensive research. ... -
Sudan: Bringing Back the State
Twenty years ago I heard the story of a southern Sudanese villager who stumbled out of the war zone into a small town in Kordofan and ... -
Humanitarian aid and the International Criminal Court: Grounds for divorce (2)
Pacification “NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE” The second main argument used in support of the International Criminal Court is that there can be “no peace without justice.” ... -
Humanitarian aid and the International Criminal Court: Grounds for divorce (1)
Introduction Officially, the thirteen NGOs expelled from Sudan after an international arrest warrant was issued against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir were being punished for their “violations ... -
Response to ‘A Waste of Hope’
The following letter from a senior ICC official has been published in World Affairs in response to the article by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal ... -
Kenya: The Normalisation of Violence
Writing more than twenty years ago about Idi Amin’s Uganda, Ali Mazrui observed that Everyone was talking about the tyrant. I suggested that more people had died ... -
Kenya: DIY Violence is Corrosive of Nationhood
It is not often that participants in ethnic cleansing confess to it openly, but William ole Ntimama has managed it twice: in a 1996 interview, and ...