May 22, 2013

Sudan: Is there any leverage left?

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From The Multilateralist, David Bosco: I spoke recently with Rebecca Hamilton, author of Fighting for Darfur, an engrossing account of the influential Darfur activist movement and its impact on Sudan policy. In the book, she melds the story of these activists with developments on the ground in Sudan, often reported personally. Her account is nuanced [...]

Kojo Nnamdi Show

In Somalia, security forces recently killed a top Al-Qaeda leader in the region. In Sudan, military tensions have regional observers worried about a return to civil war in that country’s Southern region. We explore Washington’s delicate balancing act in the Horn of Africa. Click here to listen to the interview with Amb. David Shinn, EJ [...]

PBS NewsHour

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To watch interviews on Abyei crisis with PBS NewsHour click here and here.

Carnegie Council

The Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs hosted a discussion on what Fighting for Darfur tells us about the benefits and challenges of citizen engagement in foreign policy.

Nick Kristof

NYT columnist, Nick Kristof, tweets: “Maybe the best & most readable book about Sudan is the new Fighting for Darfur by @bechamilton http://amzn.to/dR2yjK“

Blood and Milk

Senior TED fellow, Alanna Shaikh, reviews Fighting for Darfur on her blog, Blood and Milk. “This is an important, useful, well-written book . . . [Hamilton] has talked to just about every major player on Darfur, from US State Department and USAID officials to Darfuri refugees, Sudanese government officials, and the leaders in the Darfur [...]

BBC Radio 4

Jane Garvey interviews Rebecca Hamilton on her new book, Fighting for Darfur. Listen here (starts at 38 mins).

BBC/PRI’s “The World”

INTERVIEWER, JEB SHARP: The pace of the Libya intervention has stunned the people of Darfur and the activists who worked so hard to protect them. Back in 2004, the assumption was that if you raised a loud enough outcry, governments would act to stop mass atrocities. In Libya the outcry had barely begun when governments [...]

Texas in Africa

Texas in Africa blogger Laura Seay reviews Fighting for Darfur: “Fighting for Darfur is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in advocacy, diplomacy, Sudan, and/or grassroots activism.”

Foreign Policy

The Turtle Bay blog entitled, “Washington’s Slow Conversion to the International Criminal Court” recounts scenes from Fighting for Darfur. “In her book Fighting for Darfur,  Rebecca Hamilton provides an insider account into how the Bush Administration came to protect the court’s prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, from one of his greatest challenges: a movement by African states [...]