Politics
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Sudan Divestment Campaign’s Goals and Tactics and the Corporate Responsibility
I hope to provide some comments that help clarify the goals and tactics of the Sudan divestment campaign. In 2006, the Genocide Intervention Network ... -
Mamdani the Anthropologist?
In his post to open the debate on Mahmood Mamdani’s Saviors and Survivors, Alex de Waal mentioned the common theoretical threads that link Mamdani’s ... -
Today’s Image of Sudan and Its Long-Term legacy
How is Sudan perceived by the American public? And what does this mean over the long term? These questions arose in two different fora ... -
UNAMID and the Security Council: Evidence for Policy
When the Joint Special Representative of the UN and AU for Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, presented his report to the UN Security Council on Monday, ... -
2003: All Quiet on the Western Front?
Recently on this blog, an interesting question was posed: where was Save Darfur “and its advocacy and influence” in 2003? It is a good ... -
Lighter Moment: Pushing the Boundaries of Public Awareness
I thought I should share some of the more amusing efforts at promoting public awareness (in America) about human rights issues. This was sparked ... -
Darfur in 2003: Not Even Save Darfur to Save it?
The debate on Mahmood Mamdani’s Saviors and Survivors, Save Darfur and its advocacy and influence is not asking one of the more important questions ... -
Darfur and Northern Uganda: Two Models of Intervention
In the last chapter of Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani brings up the war in northern Uganda as a point of comparison with Darfur. ... -
‘Save Darfur’: Emancipatory American Exceptionalism?
Several contributors to this blog have disputed Mahmood Mamdani’s arguments about the links between “˜Save Darfur’ (in the wider sense of the mass movement) ... -
Mamdani on Darfur: Apologetic?
Mahmood Mamdani makes many interesting and persuasive points, but he does nonetheless take a strong position that seems a bit like an apologetic. At ...