Author: Alex de Waal
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Saviors and Survivors
Mahmood Mamdani’s Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror, is the most ambitious book yet on the Darfur crisis. Unlike the vast majority ... -
Elections in a Dangerous Place
The cover of Paul Collier’s new book, Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (Harper Collins, 2009) is graced by a picture of Darfurian rebels. ... -
South Sudan: “For Us Here There Is No Government”
Speaking in a focus group discussion reported by the National Democratic Institute’s study of the “three areas” of South Kordofan, Abyei and Blue Nile, a Nuba ... -
Do Darfur’s IDPs Have an Urban Future?
Most of Darfur’s internally-displaced camps are urban settlements in all but name. In geographical terms the most striking impact of the last seven years has been ... -
Grading the Prosecutor–And the Bench
My posting on the ICC Prosecutor’s application for leave to appeal against the Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision to reject the genocide charge drew some fierce criticism from ... -
Genocide by Force of Habit?
John Maynard Keynes was once irritated by a half-witted critic: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” In 2004 I ... -
How Can Elections be Held in Darfur?
The US Institute of Peace has just published an important briefing on the question of how elections can be held in Darfur under the current circumstances. ... -
Darfur: Appealing the Genocide Decision?
I was surprised to learn that the Prosecutor of the ICC is seeking leave to appeal against the Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision to not to charge President ... -
On the Significance of Determining whether Darfur is Genocide
In his latest contribution to the debate “what should Obama do about Darfur?” in The New Republic, Alan Wolfe poses the question, why does it matter ... -
Sudan/ICC: Enough Said
I rarely use this blog to give a platform for ‘Enough’ but on this occasion I thought it right to give some prominence to the creative ...