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Sudan Research, Analysis, and Advocacy

by Eric Reeves

Darfur Assessment by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, July 2, 2007, Part 2

10 July 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 6127 words

"During the last six months, we have made slow but credible and considerable progress in helping resolve this Darfur situation,' [Ban] told a news conference in Geneva." (Reuters [dateline: Geneva], July 2, 2007) In judging ...

“…credible and considerable progress in helping resolve this Darfur situation”—Assessment by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, July 2, 2007

8 July 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 4375 words

The UN Secretary-General has apparently assumed as his primary responsibilities in responding to the Darfur crisis a contrivance of meaningless optimism, a whitewashing of deteriorating security conditions in the greater ...

Human Security in Darfur and Eastern Chad: An Overview, Part 1

11 June 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 6458 words

Almost as if to mirror Darfur itself, news reporting and other accounts of the vast crisis in western Sudan and eastern Chad have become less and less coherent. Attempts at synthesizing what we know, from the broadest range ...

Human Security in Darfur and Eastern Chad: An Overview, Part 2

11 June 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 5503 words

Part One of this analysis examines in some detail the nature of ongoing military violence in Darfur and eastern Chad, as well as the lack of any reasonable expectation that security on the ground will improve in the near or ...

Congressional Testimony by Eric Reeves, “Darfur and the Olympics: A Call for International Action”

7 June 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 5488 words

Chairman Tierney and other distinguished Members of this Subcommittee: As human security in Darfur and eastern Chad continues to deteriorate; as 4.5 million conflict-affected human beings face ongoing threats of violence, ...

UN Security Council Resolution 1706, August 31, 2006 | 14 May 2007

14 May 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 7557 words

On August 31, 2006, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1706, authorizing a peace support operation for Darfur consisting of 22,500 UN troops, civilian police, and Formed Police Units. The force was to deploy "rapidly" ...

The “Genocide Olympics?” Campaign Roars Into High Gear

11 May 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 3428 words

An extraordinary column by Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated gives us perhaps our clearest and strongest view of the deplorable implications of Steven Spielberg's decision to serve as artistic director in the 2008 "Genocide ...

Khartoum’s Expedient Decision on a “UN Peace Support Package”

18 April 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 5848 words

Seven and a half months after UN Security Council Resolution 1706 (August 31, 2006) authorized deployment of 22,500 UN troops and civilian police to Darfur, with a robust mandate for civilian and humanitarian protection, the ...

Catastrophe in Darfur, Eastern Chad Accelerates Amidst International Disarray

4 April 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 8469 words

The mismatch could hardly be greater between the massive security crisis in Darfur and eastern Chad on the one hand and the pusillanimous disarray on the part of the international community in responding. The clearest ...

Ban Ki-Moon on Khartoum’s Response to UN Force in Darfur: “Not Satisfactory”

16 March 2007 | Briefs & Advocacy: 2007 | Author: ereeves | 7009 words

Although entirely unsurprising, the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum has again defiantly rejected essential elements of the proposed UN/AU peace support operation to Darfur, this in a letter ...

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cer1 Eric Reeves has been writing about greater Sudan for the past twenty-three years. His work is here organized chronologically, and includes all electronic and other publications since the signing of the historic Machakos Protocol (July 2002), which guaranteed South Sudan the right to a self- determination referendum. There are links to a number of Reeves’ formal publications in newspapers, news magazines, academic journals, and human rights publications, as well as to the texts of his Congressional testimony and a complete list of publications, testimony, and academic presentations.
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