Author: Ben Wallace
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BBC/PRI’s “The World” gave me the opportunity to talk about my time in Darfur. If you are in the U.S. you can listen on the radio, otherwise the audio link will be up on their site in a few hours.
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Key issues from my visit to Darfur
I’m still digesting my pages and pages of notes, and ordering my thoughts, so take this as a non-exhaustive list:
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Welcome to Khartoum
Rarely have a felt such a deep-seated sense of rage, as came with flying into Khartoum by night. It was the lights – the number of them, like a fairyland. These were not the kind of piecemeal lights here and there among a few locations …
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Marc Gustafon: A Prescription for Darfur activists [Part 1]
The following is the first of a two-part post by Marc Gustafon, following an earlier series of posts from Tim Nonn, Rob Crilly and Alex Meixner, on the question of “What’s Next?” for Darfur advocacy. I have some comments on the proposal below, but will …
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Time to take a position
Wow – is really the only thing I can come up with after reading this.
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The death of Garang
It’s four years ago today since “Dr. John” as he was referred to by all the Southerners I knew at the time, was killed in a helicopter accident (an incident officially cleared of “suspicious circumstances” – yet suspicions remain). Like all who are taken from …
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Beyond the “g-word”
Following some comments I made in a previous post, David Scheffer, law professor and director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law, and the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), writes about the utility of advocates …