Yearly Archives: 2010
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Can Darfur Claim the Right of Self Determination?
There is a small but growing minority view among Darfurians, that their region is entitled to self-determination with the option of independence. This issue will be ... -
Human Security Report: A Major Blow to Humanitarian Accountability
I was sorry to see the Human Security Report (HSR) released today. I was sorry because this report draws unjustified conclusions and will leave the world ... -
Are Wars Becoming Less Lethal? The 2009 Human Security Report
The Human Security Report has become well-known for its argument, backed up by careful statistical analysis, that wars are becoming less common since the early 1990s, ... -
Sudan: The End of Trust
Once upon a time, ordinary Sudanese citizens followed a set of social mores that we all understood. Everyone’s door was open – it had to be ... -
Why Chad Isn’t Darfur
Jérí´me Tubiana has published an article under this name in a recent issue of the London Review of Books. It provides a rare, ethnographic, field-based account ... -
Being a Kenyan
The Harmonised Draft Constitution's provisions on citizenship go a long way to resolving the problems of belonging to and identification with Kenya that pertain today. Through ... -
“Making Sense of Sudan”
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and one year before the scheduled date of the referendum on ... -
When Killers Become Victims
Sean Brooks has published a three-part review of Mahmood Mamdani’s Saviors and Survivors. The text is available here. The essay reflects the author’s views and not ... -
Hofrat an Nahas: A Forgotten Case
When I lived in Darfur in the 1980s, I made a trip to the abandoned copper mines of Hofrat an Nahas, and stayed a few days ... -
The SPLM: Reconciling the South’s public opinion with the New Sudan Vision
I will ask Dr Elthawig Kameir to allow me to take the heading of this article from his analysis of December 24: “The SPLM and the ...