I haven’t posted for a few days because I’ve been focused on drafting Chapter 4 of my book. It reconstructs the messy process through which we reached the (surreal) point in August 2006, of the UN Security Council saying it “invites the consent” of the Sudanese government to the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Darfur. […]
In Obama we trust (?)
April 29, 2009 by 1 Comment
100 days in Office. No progress on Darfur. The hope held by so many is being put to the test. It’s an old story – We look at a situation of failure and say “if only” factor X was different, the problem would be resolved. It’s a trap many advocates walked themselves into at the […]
Mamdani’s inaccuracies [a.k.a. “Are we really expected to fact check every detail of a book like this? “]
April 23, 2009 by 2 Comments
You can call my indignation naive – but I just don’t think it’s that unreasonable to expect that a book, published by no less reputable an organization than Random House, could have been put through a fact-checking process before going to print. On Monday I was speaking about international law at the opening of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education […]
Hunger Strike for Darfur
April 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment
On dodgy airport computer in terminal at Heathrow on way to Chicago and just got this statement through from Mia Farrow. She is leading a hunger strike in solidarity with those who are facing shortages of food and water as a result of the GOS expulsions of humanitarian organizations. Her goal is that leaders pressure the GOS […]
Upcoming events
April 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I’m heading back to the U.S. next week for a couple of events – and to squeeze in some more interviews whilst I’m at it. For anyone in Chicago or D.C., here are the details: Inaugural Symposium of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center April 20, 11am “Past & Present: Media and Legal Perspectives […]
Review of Mamdani’s book: Saviors and Survivors
April 6, 2009 by 3 Comments
Professor and Provocateur: Factual inaccuracies undermine Mamdani’s thesis
Clarification on GI-Net “1500” number
April 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Last week, former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, used statistics from the Genocide Intervention Network to write in Foreign Affairs that “according to the human rights group Genocide Intervention Network, about 1,500 people were killed in Darfur in all of 2008, 500 of them Arabs killed by other Arabs. (The rest were Africans […]
Mahmood Mamdani on Save Darfur
March 24, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I just read this interview with Mahmood Mamdani in the Boston Globe. By providing quotes such as: “Most [of Save Darfur] have no idea of the difference between the two situations [Darfur and South Sudan]” – Mamdani strikes me as trying to court controversy. Who are the “most” he refers to? The Darfur Peace and […]
GOS interference forces Mandate Darfur to cancel
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has canceled it’s much-anticipated Mandate Darfur conference, scheduled to start in Addis next week. They posted the notice on their website moments ago. I’m almost too angry to respond. I can’t tell you how many Darfuris and Darfur advocates have been talking with excitement about the fact this conference was happening […]