Social Science Research Council

Darfur has suffered more than most from the international community’s attention deficit disorder. It only commands that attention at times of crisis: the sahel drought of the 1968 to 1970, the Band Aid famine of 1984/5 and the current conflict. As each crisis recedes, important lessons are forgotten and the effort spent learning [...]

The headline is striking: The Land Question: Sudan’s Peace Nemesis. It reflects a growing body of opinion that conflict for land is an important, even the most important driver of conflict in Sudan, especially in Darfur, and that there is an urgent need for far-reaching reforms to land policy, management and administration: reforms which will [...]