Review commentary on Eric Reeves' A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide (Key Publishing [Toronto], 2007) Book Cover "Not a single person in the world has done as much for Darfur as Eric Reeves. ...
What Alternative to UNAMID Will Provide Security for Darfur? (Part 2 of 2)
Today marks the handoff of command from the African Union mission in Darfur (AMIS) to the UN peace support operation authorized by Security Council Resolution 1769 (July 31, 2007)---the "UN/African Union Mission in Darfur" ...
What Alternative to UNAMID Will Provide Security for Darfur?
There can be little doubt that the peace support operation authorized in July 2007 by UN Security Council Resolution 1769 is inadequate for the immensely challenging tasks of civilian and humanitarian protection in Darfur. ...
Darfur Peace Talks in Libya Produce Only an Emboldened Khartoum
With much talk about the "moment of truth" having arrived, the UN and African Union convened Darfur peace talks in Sirte, Libya on October 27, 2007. But all too predictably, no progress was recorded and prospects for future ...
Darfur Adrift: A Skeptical Assessment of Resolution 1769 (Part 2 of 2)
The recent massacre of civilians in Muhajiriya (South Darfur)---by Khartoum's regular military forces and its Janjaweed militia allies---represents, in its vicious human destruction, the most conspicuous consequence of ...
Darfur Remains Adrift: A Skeptical Assessment of Resolution 1769
The chances for effective deployment of civilian police and well-trained military forces to Darfur continue to be compromised by excessive international accommodation of the National Islamic Front (National Congress Party) ...
Ban Ki-moon in Sudan: Vacuous Diplomacy and Specious Declarations
Although still notionally "in progress," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's mission to Sudan on behalf of Darfur has clearly failed to register significant political progress on any front. And insofar as this mission marks a ...
Darfur Betrayed Again: The UN/AU “Hybrid” Force Steadily Weakens
Bending to the will of Khartoum's brutal National Islamic Front (National Congress Party) regime, African Union leaders are engaged in a process of eviscerating whatever potential may have existed for the force authorized by ...
Darfur Mortality: Shoddy Journalism at the New York Times
A recent op/ed on human mortality in Darfur, which appeared in the New York Times ("An Atrocity That Needs No Exaggeration," Sunday, August 12, 2007), has garnered considerable attention, indeed notoriety. The piece is by ...
The Darfur Resolution Currently Before the UN Security Council
A chronology of international responses to the Darfur genocide over the past year provides a deeply dispiriting time-line, and suggests how unlikely it is that security for civilians and humanitarians will improve any time ...