Yearly Archives: 2009
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“Save Darfur” Isn’t the Anti-Apartheid Movement
The Save Darfur campaign has been compared in size and impact to the Anti-Apartheid movement. Certainly there are comparisons. But South Africa was fortunate that the ... -
HIV/AIDS and Sudan’s Transitions
Today, the report of the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative is launched. Almost ten years after the UN Security Council first discussed HIV/AIDS as a threat ... -
Sudan’s Neglected 2010 Centenaries
During 2010, two important centenaries in the history of Sudanese nationalism occur””dates when armies from Darfur resisted colonial occupation. But, these anniversaries have never been commemorated ... -
Kenya’s Economic Crimes: Can a conditional Amnesty be meaningful?
When a Kenyan Cabinet minister suggested in early 2007 that perpetrators of corruption be pardoned if they confessed their guilt and returned the spoils, there was ... -
Misconceptions II – Domestic Prosecutions and the International Criminal Court
This is the second of three essays on misconceptions in debates over transitional justice in Kenya. The first essay considered complementarity and the Truth, Justice and ... -
After Genocide: Prevention, Intention, and Capacity
I read After Genocide while en route to Kenya. And especially, while en route back. I tried to square what I was reading with what I ... -
Why the Human Rights Movement Struggles with Good News Stories
Just before the summer break, I attended a gathering in a Dutch pub in the Hague, the so-called Café Humanitaire organized by the Dutch NGO Platform ... -
Violent Deaths in Darfur: August
Based on all the incidents reported by UNAMID, UN agencies, NGOs and the authorities that interact with all of the above, the level and pattern of ... -
Fast for Darfur?
As an American citizen, it is breathtakingly embarrassing to read of such ill-conceived ideas, and the widespread support that they enjoy in the United States, such ... -
“Save Darfur”: Fast the Eid!
America’s Darfur campaign sometimes goes beyond parody. The last few weeks have shown this to the full, beginning with the fantastical “Sudan Now” campaign and culminating ...