Author: Alex de Waal
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The AU Panel in Ain Siro: “Are We Part of Sudan?”
Speaking earlier today to the members of the African Union High-Level Panel on Darfur, in Ain Siro village in North Darfur, one resident asked rhetorically, “Are ... -
Peace in Sudan: Priorities and Constraints
The central challenge facing Sudan is the exercise of self-determination in southern Sudan. If business as usual continues, the default scenario is violent contest over the ... -
Noise and Policy: Another Advocacy Debate
Another interesting advocacy debate is conducted at www.bechamilton.com, specifically on a series of three questions posed by the convenor, Bec Hamilton, on “the promise of engagement“: ... -
Darfur: Who Has The Right to Advocate for It?
There is an interesting online debate on activism on the humanitarian relief site for www.change.org. It takes the form of a three-part exchange between Neha Erasmus ... -
Late Jaafar Nimeiri – Reflections on his Life
Former president Jaafar Mohammed Nimeiri died this week, forty years after his historic “May Revolution” in which, as a young army colonel in the model of ... -
Ain Siro: A Taste of Normality
It is a rule of thumb among experienced relief workers that when a community builds and operates a school, it is a sign of normality returning, ... -
In Memoriam: Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, the most irrepressible Pan Africanist of his generation, died in Nairobi on 25 May 2009. His friends and colleagues are stunned at the loss ... -
Sudanese Politics of Exhaustion
At a meeting in al Fashir last week, a civil society spokesman said, “˜we are tired, we have had enough.’ Sudanese civil and political leaders are ... -
R2P in Theory and Politics (3)
The third and final part of my review of Gareth Evans’ The Responsibility to Protect. Risk of Perverse Incentives My qualms about R2P are driven not ... -
R2P in Theory and Politics (2)
Part 2 of my review of Gareth Evans’ The Responsibility to Protect. The Risk of Unrealistic Expectations The subtitle of Evans’ book is: “Ending mass atrocity ...