Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 962.4043 EAN: 9780674023673 ISBN: 0674023676 Label: Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University Manufacturer: Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 431 Publication Date: September 01, 2007 Publisher: Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University Sales Rank: 296231 Studio: Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University
Since it sprang from obscurity to international headlines in 2004, the name 'Darfur' has become synonymous with war, massacre, and humanitarian crisis. The crisis had, however, been brewing for far longer, its causes neglected by both scholars and Sudanese leaders.
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace is a series of essays by leading Sudanese and international specialists on Darfur, combining original research and analysis. The book provides in-depth analysis of the origins and dimensions of the conflict, including detailed accounts of the evolution of ethnic and religious identities, the breakdown of local administration, the emergence of Arab militia and resistance movements, and regional dimensions to the conflict.
The study also focuses on the search for peace, with contributions by those most closely engaged in local and international efforts to resolve the conflict. This includes documentation and analysis of the warring parties' ideologies and agendas and how they have changed in the course of the conflict, and examination of the efforts made by Sudanese civil and political leaders, the African Union, and other international actors to bring the war to an end.
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This important book rbings together the scholarship of many authors to offer insight into all facets of the Darfur conflict and its history and why the world should have paid attention sooner. One of the greatest human crises of the first decade of the 21st century, Darfur is the latest genocide to follow on the heels of Rwanda and Cambodia, in which the West did nothing to prevent the same genocide everyone declared would never happen againa fter the Holocaust.
