Author: Alex de Waal
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Ocampo’s Gauntlet to the UN Security Council
Tragedy is the conflict of rights and there is no greater and more painful tragedy than the clash of fundamental rights. This drama is about to ... -
Shame and Violence: Insight from Complex Emergencies
In Complex Emergencies David Keen draws upon James Gilligan’s work on the psychological motivations of the most violent killers in American gaols as a source of ... -
Designing Limbo: IDP Camps and Urban Planning
Jim Lewis has a fascinating article in today’s New York Times–in the Architecture section. It’s called “The Exigent City” and poses the question, why are refugee ... -
Complex Emergencies
On page 115 of his recent book Complex Emergencies, David Keen writes, “For those familiar with this famine [1988 in southwest Kordofan and Bahr el Ghazal] ... -
Is Sudan a “Post Islamist” State? III
This last few days, this blog has launched a discussion on political Islam in Sudan, focusing on the recent book The First Islamist Republic: Development and ... -
Can Sudan Survive?
The modern history of Sudan is riddled with bloodshed, destruction and squandered chances for peace and democracy. Consistently, the worst case scenario comes to pass and, ... -
The “Responsibility to Protect” is Just a Slogan
The text of my presentation to the BBC’s World Tonight last week is now available online. (With a sentence added to reflect JEM’s attack on Khartoum, ... -
Darfur: A New History of a Long War
A completely revised and updated (to January 2008) version of the book written by Julie Flint and myself is official launched this week. It’s available in ... -
In Memoriam: Jamali Hassan Jalal al Din
An obituary by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal. One of the most disturbing images to have come out of Sudan in the wake of JEM’s ... -
Making Sense of Khalil’s Putsch
As more details emerge about JEM’s assault on the national capital at the weekend, it is becoming clear that this was a solo operation by JEM ...