African Arguments
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Darfur and Chad: A Fragmented Ethnic Mosaic
One year has passed since the rebel offensive on N’Djamena almost toppled Deby. The date of the rebel offensive was not chosen at random: ... -
Sudan’s Economy and the Financial Crisis
In the last ten years, the Sudanese economy has undergone a drastic change. Instead of been an agriculture-based economy it has turned into an ... -
Self-Protection versus Helping Survivors
On substance, much of what Darfur and the Crime of Genocide contains has been available from Joyce Apsel (ed.) Darfur: Genocide before Our Eyes ... -
A Hippocratic Africa Policy
The past decade of U.S. Africa policy has made some wish most for policies that would “first, do no harm.” A Hippocratic test could ... -
Does Criminology Offer a Useful Model?
Much of the contemporary analysis of genocides has taken on a legalistic tone inspired by the revival since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s ... -
Exceptional Circumstances and Coups d'Etat
I live in a West African city where dark wraparound sunglasses have become very expensive, if you can find them at all. That is ... -
Genocide: Where Law and Sociology Meet
Starting today, we open a debate on John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond’s Darfur and the Crime of Genocide. Over the coming days, a number ... -
Sudan’s Colonized Judiciary
It’s an unfortunate reality that books on Sudan by Sudanese authors””even those who have a wonderful English writing style, and who deal with their ... -
Rethinking Peacekeeping in Fragile States
Conventional peacekeeping operations are designed as stop-gap measures, either for a brief period of time or with a limited brief in a frozen conflict. ... -
Peacekeeping in the Political Marketplace
Conventional peacekeeping operations are designed as stop-gap measures, either for a brief period of time or with a limited brief in a frozen conflict. ...