African Arguments
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Complex Emergencies: David Keen Responds
First of all, I would like the thank Zoe Marriage, Michael Barnett and Angela Raven-Roberts for taking the trouble to read the book, and ... -
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 ... -
The Islam and the “Ism” in Sudanese Islamism
Posted by Heather Sharkey In this careful and engagingly written analysis of Hasan al-Turabi’s decade in power, Abdullahi A. Gallab concludes that the experience ... -
Is Sudan Transitioning to a post-Islamist State?
Islamism and Post-Islamism Islamism has been defined as “˜political Islam’ or a “˜politicized Islam.’ It emerged as the major Western diagnostic reference for “˜extremism’ ... -
Complex Emergencies and the Humanitarian Enterprise
Posted by Angela Raven-Roberts. David Keen has written a very readable and approachable book tackling a complex subject and tracing its multiple representations, interpretations ... -
Putting the Complex into Complex Emergencies
Posted on behalf of Michael Barnett. David Keen certainly puts the complex into complex emergencies. Combining critical theorizing and detailed knowledge of conflict zones ... -
Reading Wars Actively
Complex Emergencies emanates from lectures renowned for their capacity to challenge MSc students (I was one of them) and encourage new ways of thinking. ... -
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 ...