http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:39:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/27/on-writing-sudan-and-getting-it-wrong/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/27/on-writing-sudan-and-getting-it-wrong/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:58:55 +0000 Alex de Waal http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=551 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/27/on-writing-sudan-and-getting-it-wrong/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/13/abusing-genocide-why-comparisons-with-the-holocaust-mislead/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/13/abusing-genocide-why-comparisons-with-the-holocaust-mislead/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:19:07 +0000 Pieter Tesch http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=523 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/13/abusing-genocide-why-comparisons-with-the-holocaust-mislead/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/11/shigeg-karo-one-week-on/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/11/shigeg-karo-one-week-on/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 00:46:52 +0000 Julie Flint http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=481 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/11/shigeg-karo-one-week-on/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/06/the-bombing-of-shigeg-karo-and-the-miserable-response/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/06/the-bombing-of-shigeg-karo-and-the-miserable-response/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 23:54:10 +0000 Alex de Waal http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=480 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/06/the-bombing-of-shigeg-karo-and-the-miserable-response/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/03/20/darfur-dimensions-and-dilemmas-of-a-complex-crisis/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/03/20/darfur-dimensions-and-dilemmas-of-a-complex-crisis/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:54:00 +0000 Johan Brosche http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2008/03/20/darfur-dimensions-and-dilemmas-of-a-complex-crisis/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/03/20/darfur-dimensions-and-dilemmas-of-a-complex-crisis/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/22/china-and-sudan-defining-the-turning-point/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/22/china-and-sudan-defining-the-turning-point/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:50:32 +0000 Alex de Waal http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2008/02/22/china-and-sudan-defining-the-turning-point/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/22/china-and-sudan-defining-the-turning-point/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/21/china-and-sudan-a-defining-moment/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/21/china-and-sudan-a-defining-moment/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:17:44 +0000 admin http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2008/02/21/china-and-sudan-a-defining-moment/ Editor's note: Mia Farrow and Ronan Farrow, who were instrumental in starting up the "genocide Olympics" campaign, have offered these words. Without question this is a a defining moment for each of us, and a deeply consequential one for the people of Darfur and eastern Chad. Responsible leaders and citizens alike should think carefully as to how they might best use their leverage with China. The successful staging of the 2008 Beijing Olympic games have proven to be a lone point of leverage with a country that has thus far been impervious to criticism. Those who have Peking's ear in the lead-up to the Games and those underwriting the ceremony--the corporate sponsors--must step up and do their part. [...] ]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/21/china-and-sudan-a-defining-moment/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/2008/02/20/can-hollywood-save-darfur/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/20/can-hollywood-save-darfur/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:16:32 +0000 admin http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2008/02/20/can-hollywood-save-darfur/ Editor's note: Chris Alden, senior lecturer in international relations at the London School of Economics, contributed this post on Steven Spielberg's withdrawal from his involvement in the Beijing Olympics. Alden is the author of the acclaimed China in Africa, part of the African Arguments series to which Alex de Waal's book on Darfur, written with Julie Flint, also belongs. Steven Spielberg's decision to publicly withdrawal from his post as artistic director of the Beijing Olympics has reignited a simmering debate as to China's relationship with the Sudanese government and its role in the troubled Darfur region. In what appears to be a carefully worded statement, Spielberg acknowledges that while the Sudanese government bore the 'bulk of the responsibility' for crimes in Darfur, the 'international community and China in particular should be doing more' [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/02/20/can-hollywood-save-darfur/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2007/12/28/human-rights-and-the-african-union-memory-and-forgetting/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2007/12/28/human-rights-and-the-african-union-memory-and-forgetting/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:38:12 +0000 Alex de Waal http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2007/12/28/human-rights-and-the-african-union-memory-and-forgetting/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2007/12/28/human-rights-and-the-african-union-memory-and-forgetting/feed/