SSRC Staff

Alex de Waal

Program Director,
HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation

Bio

Alex de Waal is program director of the program on HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation and a group of projects on Conflict And Humanitarian Crisis in the Southern Cone of Africa. He is also regional advisor (on the Horn of Africa) to SSRC’s Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. De Waal has been with the Council since November 2004 and received his doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford University in 1988. Just recently, in 2009, he was given the Order of the British Empire. His most recent publications include Darfur: A New History of a Long War (Zed Books, 2008), War in Darfur and the Search for Peace (Harvard University Press, 2007) and AIDS and Power: Why There is No Political Crisis—Yet (Zed Books, 2006).

Programs and Projects

African Arguments
(Program Director)
AIDS2031
(Program Director)
Epidemiology of Lethal Violence
(Program Director)
HIV/AIDS Program
(Program Director)
How Genocides End
(Program Director)
Joint Learning Initiative on Children and AIDS (JLICA)
Political Marketplace
(Program Director)
Sudan Program
(Program Director)

Publications

Book(s)
Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, Darfur: A New History of a Long War (revised and updated) (2008).
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace, ed. Alex de Waal (2007).
Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power: Why There is No Political Crisis - Yet (2006).

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