{"id":459,"date":"2012-04-03T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/?page_id=459"},"modified":"2012-05-16T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:23:16","slug":"de-waals-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/de-waals-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Waal&#8217;s Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Blog:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Making Sense of Sudan<br \/>\n\u201cStarted by Alex de Waal in 2007, MSS has become an institution for those wishing to understand the country and the many issues raised by its politics, humanitarian crises and international engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africanarguments.org\/category\/making-sense-of-sudan\/\">http:\/\/africanarguments.org\/category\/making-sense-of-sudan\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Books:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>1989: Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Explores causes of famine and survival methods related to the Darfur famines of 1984.\u00a0 Stresses traditional survival methods and de-emphasizes international aid.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>1990: War in Sudan: An Analysis of Conflict<br \/>\nAnalyzes the roots of civil war between Northern and Southern Sudan.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>1991: Evil days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia<br \/>\nCriticizes strategies of aid dispersal by external agencies\/governments, discusses the ways in which such methods can exacerbate conflicts.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>1995: Facing Genocide: The Nuba of Sudan<br \/>\nCharacterizes the \u201cwar\u201d in the Nuba mountains as government-sponsored genocide and explores the situation in depth.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>1997: Famine crimes: Politics &amp; the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa<br \/>\nPresents the unintended consequences of \u201cfamine aid\u201d in Africa and criticizes Western misconceptions of aid and \u201chumanitarian intervention\u201d as forms of neocolonialism.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>2000: Who Fights? Who Cares?: War and Humanitarian Action in Africa\u00a0 (Editor)<br \/>\nVarious essays explore aspects of war in Africa and the prospects for peace in the future.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>2001: The Phoenix State: Civil Society and the Future of Sudan\u00a0 (Editor)<br \/>\nExplores social and political aspects of Sudanese national unifying process as the country appears to approach peace.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>2002: Demilitarizing the Mind: African Agendas for Peace and Security\u00a0\u00a0 (Editor)<br \/>\nAnalyzes the militarization of African governance and prospects for alternatives.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>2002: Young Africa: Realising the Rights of Children and Youth\u00a0 (Editor)<br \/>\nDetails the plight of African children, as well as the manner in which they are reciprocally informing their societies.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>2002: When Peace Comes: Civil Society and Development in Sudan\u00a0 (Editor)<br \/>\nExplores the challenges Sudan will face in the coming years.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>2004: Islamism and its Enemies in the Horn of Africa (Editor)<br \/>\nAnalysis of the spread of militant Islam in the Horn of Africa and its implications for the region&#8217;s future social dynamic.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>2005: Darfur: a Short History of a Long War\u00a0 (Updated to <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/darfur-a-new-history-of-a-long-war\/\">Darfur: A New History of a Long War in 2008<\/a>)<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>2006: AIDS and Power: Why there is no Political Crisis\u2014Yet<br \/>\nDe Waal raises the question of why the AIDS epidemic has been so poorly handled in Africa and contends that imposed Western frameworks for prevention and treatment are inappropriate for Africa.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>2007: War in Darfur and the Search for Peace<br \/>\nA collection of essays detailing the various origins of conflict in Darfur, aspects of the conflict, and its contemporary status as well as implications for the future.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<strong>Relevant Articles:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2004: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v26\/n15\/alex-de-waal\/counter-insurgency-on-the-cheap\">Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2004: <a href=\"http:\/\/conconflicts.ssrc.org\/hornofafrica\/dewaal\/\">Who are the Darfurians? Arab and African Identities, Violence and External Engagement<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2005:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/conconflicts.ssrc.org\/hornofafrica\/chasing_ghosts\/\">Chasing Ghosts: Alex de Waal on the rise and fall of militant Islam in the Horn of Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2005: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/2005\/08\/sudanschance\/\">Sudan\u2019s chance<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2006: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/genocide\/analysis\/details.php?content=2006-05-04-02\">Alex de Waal Personal View on Darfur peace talks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2006:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v28\/n23\/alex-de-waal\/i-will-not-sign\"> \u2018I will not sign\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2006: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2006\/sep\/29\/comment.sudan\">The book was closed too soon on peace in Darfur<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2006: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/democracy-africa_democracy\/darfur_peace_3709.jsp\">Darfur&#8217;s fragile peace<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2007: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/issue\/march-19-2007\">The Wars of Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2009: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldaffairsjournal.org\/article\/case-closed-prosecutor-without-borders\">Case Closed: A Prosecutor Without Borders<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/25\/opinion\/south-sudans-doomsday-machine.html\">South Sudan&#8217;s Doomsday Machine<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tufts.edu\/reinventingpeace\/2012\/03\/10\/dont-elevate-kony\/\">Don&#8217;t Elevate Kony <\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 24th, 2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/africanarguments.org\/2012\/04\/24\/alex-de-waal-currently-it%E2%80%99s-war-for-north-and-south-sudan\/\">Currently, it&#8217;s war for North and South Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog: Making Sense of Sudan \u201cStarted by Alex de Waal in 2007, MSS has become an institution for those wishing to understand the country and the many issues raised by its politics, humanitarian crises and international engagement.\u201d http:\/\/africanarguments.org\/category\/making-sense-of-sudan\/ Books: 1989: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/de-waals-publications\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3311,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}