Academic Resources: topical resources: Darfur
Ethnographic & Historical Studies, Agency Responses, and Web-based resources: Prepared by Lauren Carruth, 11/01/06
Books | Agency Reports | Scholarly Reports and Articles | Web Sources
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 Unpublished article.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
Jan Pronk’s weblog: http://www.janpronk.nl/index120.html (Pronk is the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Sudan, and is leading the UN peace keeping operation.)
See the Darfur Information Center, http://www.darfurinfo.org for background information provided by Ali B. Ali-Dinar, PhD University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
International Crisis Group reports: See ICG website www.crisisweb.org
updated April 19, 2007