Politics
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Quo Vadis, ICC?
Pity the prosecutor. In the last few days, the very first case that Mr. Luis Moreno Ocampo has brought before the judges of the ... -
Post al-Turabi Islam: Don’t Kill the Message
I recall reading in the 1960s for a wise man who said we keep staging failed revolutions because of the bad books we keep ... -
Can the ICC Bring Peace to Sudan?
The ICC is currently pursuing its fourth case since the Court’s inception, but has yet to enforce justice or foster peace in any of ... -
Adaptation and Devastation: Markets and Livelihoods
Two long-time specialists on Darfur, Margie Buchanan-Smith and Abduljabbar Fadul, recently published a superb report on trade and livelihoods during the conflict in Darfur. ... -
Humanitarian Dilemmas in Darfur
With 13,000 humanitarian workers and a hundred relief agencies, Darfur hosts the largest humanitarian operation in the world. The aid apparatus started to be ... -
Darfur’s Crime Scenes
In the debate over the ICC, and the indictments the Chief Prosecutor has promised for this month, my concerns are primarily factual: the depiction ... -
Sudan: Buying Time
The political geometry of Sudan defies resolution. No sooner had a framework been agreed for the provisional settlement of the North-South conflict in 2002 ... -
Justice Off Course
Julie Flint and I have an Oped in today’s Washington Post. Is the International Criminal Court losing its way in Darfur? We fear it ... -
What if Ocampo Indicts Bashir? 8
The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor would surely agree that the mediators of peace agreements need to be attentive to the requirements of justice. However, in ... -
On Writing Sudan (And Getting It Wrong)
Last Sunday the Washington Post ran a column by me in the section This Writing Life. It begins: Some years ago in a rebel-held ...