http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:24:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/21/a-cross-border-marketplace-of-loyalties/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/21/a-cross-border-marketplace-of-loyalties/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:36:27 +0000 Alex de Waal http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=536 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/21/a-cross-border-marketplace-of-loyalties/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/28/land-and-power-the-case-of-the-zaghawa/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/28/land-and-power-the-case-of-the-zaghawa/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 11:55:40 +0000 Jerome Tubiana http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=497 French (PDF, 96KB). Land has often been described as a key motivation for the Arabs and non-Arabs who actively participated in the “Janjaweed” in Darfur and southeast Chad (see my article “Darfur: a Conflict for Land” in Alex de Waal (ed.), War in Darfur and the Search for Peace.) One of the primary traits of the Darfur crisis (like the Dar Sila crisis in Chad) can be described as a split between those members of the population with territories (hawakir) due to traditional, mainly pre-colonial land rights and those who have none – a split which is not exactly the same as the ethnic divisions between Arabs and non-Arabs that are so often presented without nuance. ]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/28/land-and-power-the-case-of-the-zaghawa/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/01/liberators-and-military-entrepreneurs/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/01/liberators-and-military-entrepreneurs/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 11:20:08 +0000 Alex de Waal http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=478 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/01/liberators-and-military-entrepreneurs/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/04/15/analysis-of-chad/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/04/15/analysis-of-chad/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:04:51 +0000 Jerome Tubiana http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=468 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/04/15/analysis-of-chad/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/20/433/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/20/433/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:33:13 +0000 admin http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2008/02/20/433/ Editors note: We are pleased to have this contribution from Daniel Large, a UK-based scholar on China—Sudan relations who has published widely on the topic. He recently authored a piece, "China and the Changing Context of Development in Sudan," for the journal Development. Europe and America have tended to regard China as the Great Hope or the Great Demon, moving historically between binary projections of China as an enlightened model to learn from or as an example to avoid. In the case of Sudan today, however, China is paradoxically held up to represent both: it is supposedly the route to peace in Darfur but it is also responsible for 'empowering evil' in Sudan. Steven Spielberg's decision not to continue his role as artistic director[...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/20/433/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/12/alex-in-the-news-on-chad/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/12/alex-in-the-news-on-chad/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:22:42 +0000 Mary-Lea Cox http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2008/02/12/alex-in-the-news-on-chad/ posting on Chad was cited in a New York Times article: "Fighting in Chad's Capital Ebbs, But Problems Loom," by Lydia Polgreen (7 February 2008). Polgreen referred to Making Sense of Darfur blog by name, though the online version didn't link to us, unfortunately. In addition, Alex recently published an article on Chad in Time magazine's European edition: "A Dangerous Friend" (6 February 2008).]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/12/alex-in-the-news-on-chad/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/09/africas-thirty-years-war-in-need-of-a-new-edition/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/09/africas-thirty-years-war-in-need-of-a-new-edition/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:33:53 +0000 Alex de Waal http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2008/02/09/africas-thirty-years-war-in-need-of-a-new-edition/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/09/africas-thirty-years-war-in-need-of-a-new-edition/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/04/making-sense-of-chad/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/04/making-sense-of-chad/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:27:12 +0000 Alex de Waal http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2008/02/04/making-sense-of-chad/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/04/making-sense-of-chad/feed/