African Arguments
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The Future of the Sudanese Islamist Movement
One of the great ironies of the Islamist adventure in coup-making (leading to the creation of the National Salvation regime in June 1989) was ... -
Urbanization and Exploitation
Asif Faiz claims that Khartoum resembles capital cities in “virtually every” developing country. In the sense that, for the first, time the majority of ... -
Urbanization: the Path to Development and Democracy?
Mark Duffield’s comments are thoughtful but I would ask him a simple question. Is Khartoum that different from imperial cities like Delhi, Mexico City, ... -
Peace in Darfur: Prioritizing or Police Enforcement?
In his comment yesterday, Michael Swigert of Africa Action usefully compares the memorandum that Abdul Mohammed and I submitted to the mediation meeting on ... -
Whither the Darfur Mediation? (III)
This is the third part of a paper based on a memorandum submitted to an informal consultation on the Darfur mediation. This section is ... -
Whither the Darfur Mediation? (II)
This is the second part of a paper based on a memorandum submitted by Alex de Waal and Abdul Mohammed to the informal consultation ... -
Whither the Darfur Mediation? (I)
This is the first in a series of three postings on the challenges facing the UN-AU Mediation. It is an edited version of a ... -
Darfur: Dimensions and Dilemmas of a Complex Crisis
The point of departure for the report, Darfur: Dimensions and Dilemmas of a Complex Situation, published by the Uppsala University Department of Peace and ... -
Sanctions, Incentives and Conditionalities in Peacemaking
Powers of Persuasion, a new publication from Conciliation Resources is a series of essays on the role of sanctions, incentives and conditionalities in peacemaking. ... -
On the importance of urban intersection, when integration is not necessarily on the cards
Posted on behalf of AbdouMaliq Simone The discussion that has taken place on this weblog over the last weeks concerning urbanization in the Sudan ...