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	<title>Making Sense of Darfur &#187; Socio-economic Issues</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Have Activists Found A Soft Power Policy More Powerful than Sanctions?</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/08/19/have-activists-found-a-soft-power-policy-more-powerful-than-sanctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristam Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Apropos of Ibrahim Adam&#8217;s call to increase foreign direct investment in Sudan, it&#8217;s worth considering whether a strategy, pushed by American divestment activists, that bringing firms to the negotiating table offers a more productive soft power strategy than sanctions. In my view, there is a small chance that it does.
What began as a push by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctions and Targeted Divestment: Still Needed</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/08/19/sanctions-and-targeted-divestment-still-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Millenson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 14th in this space, Ibrahim Adam argued for the removal of United States sanctions and an end to the international targeted divestment campaign meant to turn the screws on Khartoum. The argument is convincing only if you accept Mr. Adam’s implied premises: that the war in Darfur is merely a result of economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Time to Lift Sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/08/14/high-time-to-lift-sanctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibrahim Adam</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The US government and the American people sincerely want to do the right thing by Sudan. Help turn it into a democratic, stable, equitable, prosperous and, preferably, united country. Trouble is they don’t seem to know how. At least that’s what it looks like judging by America’s neurosis with placing new, and keeping old, economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food, Farms and Power in Sudan</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/08/10/food-farms-and-power-in-sudan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/08/10/food-farms-and-power-in-sudan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex de Waal</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Land]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Gettleman’s article in today’s New York Times, “Darfur Withers as Sudan Sells a Food Bonanza,” is an excellent overview of the issues surrounding food production and food relief. Excepting solely the current context of high international food prices, it could have been written at any time in the last thirty years. 
In the 1970s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adaptation and Devastation: Markets and Livelihoods</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/07/02/adaptation-and-devastation-markets-and-livelihoods/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/07/02/adaptation-and-devastation-markets-and-livelihoods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex de Waal</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=558</guid>
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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. The title makes the key point: there has been both devastation and adaptation. The famous resilience and entrepreneurial spirit of Darfurian traders has been tested to the limit by the war. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humanitarian Dilemmas in Darfur</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/07/02/humanitarian-dilemmas-in-darfur/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/07/02/humanitarian-dilemmas-in-darfur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabrice Weissman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Issues]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 deployed in Western Sudan in mid-2004 in a context of acutely high mortality among civilian displaced living in camps and those remaining in rural areas. Since that time – thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complex Emergencies: David Keen Responds</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/08/complex-emergencies-david-keen-responds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/06/08/complex-emergencies-david-keen-responds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Keen</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=517</guid>
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First of all, I would like the thank Zoe Marriage, Michael Barnett and Angela Raven-Roberts for taking the trouble to read the book, and for their insightful, critical and sympathetic comments.
A large part of what I am trying to get across in the Complex Emergencies book, as Michael Barnett correctly perceives, is that the aims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condemned to Repeat the Past: Thirty Years of Understanding Ignored</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/06/condemned-to-repeat-the-past-thirty-years-of-understanding-ignored/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/05/06/condemned-to-repeat-the-past-thirty-years-of-understanding-ignored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Morton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Center Could Not Hold</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/04/23/when-the-center-could-not-hold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/04/23/when-the-center-could-not-hold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex de Waal</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Bates’ When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late Century Africa is a seminal contribution to understanding state crises Africa.
Bates’ thesis is that in the late 20th century, sub-Saharan African states suffered a catastrophic lowering of public revenues (brought about by a combination of poverty and fiscal austerity measures), that caused rulers with relatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urbanization: the Path to Development and Democracy?</title>
		<link>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/04/10/urbanization-the-path-to-development-and-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/2008/04/10/urbanization-the-path-to-development-and-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asif Faiz</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/?p=465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Duffield&#8217;s comments are thoughtful but I would ask him a simple question. Is Khartoum that different from imperial cities like Delhi, Mexico City, Lima., Buenos Aires, in relation to their surrounding areas. So why is Khartoum singled out as an anomaly when virtually every Sub-Saharan African country exhibits the same trends in terms of [...]]]></description>
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