Eric Reeves
This site links to published research briefs as well as advocacy writings on Sudan by Eric Reeves. These have been organized chronologically, and include all electronic and other publications since the signing of the historic Machakos Protocol (July 2002), guaranteeing South Sudan a self-determination referendum. There are separate links for publications in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. There is also a separate link for work published from July 2002 to December 2003 and another for yet earlier pieces, primarily related to oil development in southern Sudan and pre-July 2002 stages in the peace process.
There are also links to a number of Reeves’ formal publications in newspapers, news magazines, academic journals, and human rights publications, as well as the texts of his Congressional testimony. Finally, a complete list of publications, testimony, and academic presentations is also linked, as is a grouping of profiles of his work.
(Click on Archive for all links; click here for full list of publications, Congressional testimony, academic presentations, broadcast interviews.)
Eric Reeves is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past fourteen years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan’s recent history. His book about Darfur (A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide) was published in May 2007. He has recently published Compromising with Evil: An archival history of greater Sudan, 2007 — 2012 (available at no cost as an eBook).
The contents of this website, as well as other electronic files and hard copy—including a range of Sudan-related publications, written materials, photographs, and maps—are presently being archived in the human rights division of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs, Connecticut.
QUANTIFYING GENOCIDE: Darfur Mortality Update, August 6, 2010 (updated November 2016)
QUANTIFYING GENOCIDE: Darfur Mortality Update, August 6, 2010What we learn from the new report by "Darfurian Voices" (July 14, 2010)
Eric Reeves
August 6, 2010
(this update is available, on request, as a Word document attachment, preserving all quantitative formatting, word and number highlighting, and links;
also available at http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article35911 )
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"Darfur: A Bibliography of Violence and International Indifference," Sudan Tribune, 13 April 2014
“Darfur: A Bibliography of Violence and International Indifference,” Sudan Tribune Eric Reeves, 13 April 2014 | http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article50631 The accelerating avalanche of violence that continues to sweep across Darfur has finally compelled acknowledgement by the international community, which inevitably refers to this as a “recent” development. This is despicably disingenuous. UNAMID, the […]Read More »From Foreign Policy, April 7, 2014 (On UNAMID in Darfur), "They Just Stood Watching"
From Foreign Policy, April 7, 2014 – “They Just Stood Watching” – After the Darfur genocide, the United Nations sent in 20,000 peacekeepers with a single mission — to protect the region’s civilians. A Foreign Policy investigation details why they failed, and what the U.N. knew about it. – By Column Lynch, Foreign Policy, April 7, […]Read More »"April 2014: The Twentieth Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide: What has been learned?" (Part 1), Sudan Tribune, 6 April 2014
Eric Reeves, 6 April 2014 | http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article50559 (“PART TWO: Darfur, the early responses” may be found at: http://wp.me/p45rOG-1bi) • Rwanda at twenty years Roméo Dallaire offers a number of painful, indeed excruciating observations in his searing account of the Rwandan genocide that claimed the […]Read More »"April 2014: The Twentieth Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide: What has been learned?" (Part 2), Sudan Tribune, 6 April 2014
Eric Reeves, 6 April 2014 – http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article50559 – (in two parts; “PART ONE: Darfur, ten years later” may be found at: http://wp.me/p45rOG-1bj) • PART TWO: Darfur, the early responses [This section will be of primary interest to those who wish to know how it is possible that […]Read More »Massive Air and Ground Attacks Against Civilians in Darfur: New Reports from the Satellite Sentinel Project, 28 March 2014
Massive Air and Ground Attacks Against Civilians in Darfur: New Reports from the Satellite Sentinel Project Eric Reeves | 28 March 2014 | http://wp.me/s45rOG-4541 In a series of recent reports, the Satellite Sentinel Project has provided substantial, professionally analyzed satellite imagery indicating unambiguously the continuing escalation of assaults on Darfuri civilians, primarily those from ethnically […]Read More »"The Forgotten Genocidal War in Darfur Revealed in New Satellite Photos," The Daily Beast (March 24, 2014)
“The Forgotten Genocidal War in Darfur Revealed in New Satellite Photos” The Daily Beast (March 24, 2014), by Akshaya Kumar and Jacinth Planer (Satellite Sentinel Project) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/24/the-forgotten-genocidal-war-in-darfur-revealed-in-new-satellite-photos.html Commentary, Eric Reeeves Violence, including deliberate aerial attacks on civilians, has been increasing for more than two years in Darfur. The past few months, however, have seen a dramatic […]Read More »Khartoum's Assault on Humanitarian Organizations in Darfur Continues
Khartoum’s Assault on Humanitarian Organizations in Darfur Continues – Eric Reeves, 19 March 2014 – At the same time that the Khartoum regime is aiding, sponsoring, and countenancing renewed large-scale militia violence in Darfur, a parallel—and potentially more destructive—campaign is underway. As Radio Dabanga reports today, the latest international humanitarian organization to be shut down […]Read More »"Khartoum: A Criminal Regime in Its Death Throes Lashes Out With More Violence," Sudan Tribune, 14 March 2014
“Khartoum: A Criminal Regime in Its Death Throes Lashes Out With More Violence,” Sudan Tribune, 14 March 2014″ Eric Reeves | Sudan Tribune, 14 March 2014 | http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article50293 Even by the extraordinary standards of the National Islamic Front/National Congress regime, the past few weeks have seen exceedingly grim news throughout Sudan, but especially […]Read More »In South Sudan, a Violent Conflict Breeds Mass Displacement (Wall Street Journal podcast)
In South Sudan, a Violent Conflict Breeds Mass Displacement (Wall Street Journal podcast) The Wall Street Journal has produced a short (under 10 minutes) “podcast” on the crisis in South Sudan. It is a primer, not a policy piece or detailed analysis. Voices are those of myself as well as WSJ journalist Patrick McGroarty on […]Read More »"Khartoum: Really Out of the Terrorism Business?" Sudan Tribune, 8 March 2014
“Khartoum: Really Out of the Terrorism Business?” Sudan Tribune, 8 March 2014 Eric Reeves | 7 March 2014 | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1b1 http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article50222 Given the U.S. intelligence community’s eager relationship with Khartoum, it would be convenient if the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime were no longer in the business of supporting international terrorism and no longer […]Read More »"Janjaweed in Darfur Reconstituted as the 'Rapid Response Force,'" Sudan Tribune, 1 March 2014
“Janjaweed in Darfur Reconstituted as the ‘Rapid Response Force,'” Sudan Tribune Eric Reeves, 1 March 2014 | http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article50134 There have in the past been various tendentious claims made about “peace” slowly settling over Darfur, about the end of the terrible predations of 2002 – 2005, about a status quo having settled over the region, if […]Read More »A Grim 10th Anniversary: "Unnoticed Genocide [in Darfur]," Washington Post, 25 February 2004
A Grim 10th Anniversary: “Unnoticed Genocide [in Darfur],” Washington Post, 25 February 2004 Painfully little of this ten-year-old account needs updating: “Unnoticed Genocide,” Washington Post (February 25, 2004), by Eric Reeves | http://www.sudanreeves.org/Sections-article53-p1.html In the remote Darfur region of western Sudan, a human disaster is accelerating amid uncontrolled violence. The United Nations’ undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs […]Read More »"Malnutrition Data for Darfur Still Being Withheld," Sudan Tribune, 11 February 2014
“Malnutrition Data for Darfur Still Being Withheld,” Sudan Tribune Eric Reeves | February 10, 2014 http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49907 For several years now, one of the great deficiencies in our understanding of and response to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur has been a lack of data relevant to assessments of malnutrition, hygiene, primary medical care, access to clean […]Read More »"Khartoum's Suspension of Activities by the International Committee of the Red Cross," Sudan Tribune, 10 February 2014
“Khartoum’s Suspension of Activities by the International Committee of the Red Cross,” Sudan Tribune Eric Reeves | 10 February 2014 | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1aH In an outrageous display of contempt and callousness, the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum regime has today, with no articulated justification other than “technical issues,” officially suspended humanitarian activities by the […]Read More »"Riek Machar's End-Game: What is it?" Sudan Tribune, 28 December 2013
Eric Reeves, 28 December 2013 • Riek Machar, former Vice-President of South Sudan and current leader of rebel forces in the country, knows as well as anyone that every day that passes without a halt to the fighting—every hour—makes more likely the explosive spread of violence that has already taken on […]Read More »"Radio Dabanga: The Voice of Truth Amidst a Sea of UN Mendacity," Sudan Tribune, 15 December 2013
Eric Reeves, 15 December 2013 • On Friday evening, December 13, 2013, Radio Dabanga celebrated its fifth anniversary of reporting on Darfur from The Netherlands. It was, inevitably, a somber event—and not simply because of the grim, often unspeakably cruel news that Radio Dabanga daily reports from all corners of Darfur. On […]Read More »"Preventing Civil War in Sudan: U.S. Involvement Is Critical," The New York Times, January 8, 2014
Eric Reeves • “The U.S. should assist in humanitarian efforts, send a senior U.S. official to negotiations, and strongly encourage the release of political detainees.” United States engagement with the two Sudan’s has been fitful since the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (S.P.L.M.), the latter of which formed […]Read More »"Genocide in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan," Dissent Magazine, 22 June 2011
Eric Reeves – http://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/genocide-in-the-nuba-mountains-of-sudan • The Kauda valley in the very center of the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, Sudan is a beautiful place, one of the most beautiful I’ve ever encountered. The hillsides are alive with tukuls (traditional thatched huts) and terraced landscapes that give the impression of always having […]Read More »Darfur Destroyed: A week in the life of a dying land
Darfur Destroyed: A week in the life of a dying land Eric Reeves | 27 November 2013 | http://wp.me/p45rOG-19J The scale of human destruction and suffering in Darfur is scarcely imaginable, and would not be imaginable at all if we were to depend on the reporting of the UN (either humanitarian agencies or the UN/African […]Read More »Genocide in the Nuba Mountains: A retrospective on what we knew, June 2011 - 2013, 11 October 2013
Eric Reeves • Given the tepid international response to events throughout Sudan in recent weeks, we must wonder if what we have seen for two and a half years in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile is the face of Sudan’s political future. Certainly the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime has shown […]Read More »"Events in Darfur Rapidly Spiraling Out of Control as Security Continues to Collapse," Sudan Tribune, August 29, 2013
“Events in Darfur Rapidly Spiraling Out of Control as Security Continues to Collapse,” Sudan Tribune Eric Reeves | August 29, 2013 | http://wp.me/p45rOG-15L As the world reacts with horror to chemical weapons attacks on civilians in Syria, and watches with grim anticipation as an American military response takes shape, there appears to be little “band-width” […]Read More »Eric Reeves on "TruthAtlas"
TruthAtlas is a novel and very interesting site for news about people trying to make a difference in the world. I was fortunate to have this short (three and a half minutes) video made last year; it gets at a great deal that moves me in my work on Sudan. March 4, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_tRDSTiOvY […]Read More »