Society for Medical Anthropology

A section of the American Anthropological Association

Academic Resources: Topical Resources

  • Darfur

Books

  • DeWaal, Alex. 1989/2004. Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan. Clarendon Press.
  • Flint, Julie and Alex de Waal. 2005. Darfur: A Short History of a Long War. Zed Books.
  • Totten, Samuel and Eric Markusen. 2006. Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan.
  • Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed and Leif Manger (eds). 2006. Understanding the Crisis in Darfur: Listening to Sudanese Voices. University of Bergen, Centre for Development Studies.
  • Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed. 2002. Anthropology in the Sudan: Reflections by a Sudanese Anthropologist. Utrecht, International Books.
  • David Hoile. 2005. Darfur in Perspective. European Sudanese Public Affairs Council, 2005.

Agency Reports

  • United Nations Human Rights Commission. 2006. Fifth periodic report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan.  October 6, 2006.
  • Feinstein International Famine Center. 2005. Darfur 2005: Livelihoods Under Siege. Report to USAID, June 2005. Tufts University and Ahfad University for Women.
  • International Crisis Group. 2004. Darfur Rising: Sudan’s New Crisis, Africa Report No. 86, March 2004.http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=2550&l=1 
  • Physicians for Human Rights. 2006. Darfur: Assault on Survival.  A Call for Security, Justice, and Restitution. Agency Report.
  • Coalition for International Justice. 2006. Soil and Oil: Dirty Business in Sudan.  Agency Report, February 2006.

Scholarly Reports and Articles

  • De Waal, Alex. 2005. Who are the Darfurians? Arab and African Identities, Violence and External Engagement.  Unpublished article.
  • De Waal, Alex. 2005. Horrors and Errors. Times Literary Supplement August 2005, Review of Gerard Prunier, Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Hurst and Co.
  • Deng, Francis M. 2006. Sudan: A nation in turbulent search for itself. Lecture to the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3820  November 2, 2005.  Text also available in pdf.
  • Nathan, Laurie. 2006. “No Ownership, No Peace: The Darfur Peace Agreement,” http://www.crisisstates.com/Publications/wp/WPseries2/wp5.2.htm
  • Sharif Harir. 1994. “Arab Belt” versus “African Belt,” Ethno-Political Conflict in Darfur and the Regional Cultural Factors, in Sharif Harir and Terje Tvedt, Short-Cut toDecay: The Case of the Sudan, Scandinavian Institute for African Studies.
  • Slim, Hugo. 2004. Dithering over Darfur.  International Affairs. 80(5): 818-828.
  • Tanner, Victor. 2005. Rule of Lawlessness: Roots & Repercussions of the Darfur Crisis. Sudan Advocacy Coalition. Interagency Report.

Web Sources