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• Sudan’s Census and the National Assembly Elections

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  When Sudan’s fifth population census was recently completed, many Sudanese citizens rejected the results, arguing that the population of Southern Sudan was significantly higher than the census showed. One of the worries is that southern states will be given fewer seats in the National Assembly, because most of the ...
  4 days ago

• Arms in Sudan

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  A new publication by the Small Arms Survey, “Supply and Demand: Arms flows and holdings in Sudan,” provides the most up-to-date assessments of the military capacities of Sudan’s contending parties.The briefing documents the ongoing supplies of weaponry to the governments in Khartoum and Juba. Among the major ...
  6 days ago

• Who are the Sudanese?

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  Sudanese cannot agree on their common identity, but up to now they have not disagreed on who counts as a Sudanese. The first disagreement may yet divide the country. But partition should not be a reason to tear up the precious and under-appreciated consensus on who is a member of the Sudanese community.Since the ...
  1 week ago

• “The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis”

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  The media profile of Darfur shot up enormously once the label ‘the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’ was applied, although technically the phrase used was the “world’s greatest humanitarian and human rights catastrophe.” This is commonly standardised to ‘world’s worst…’In a press conference in ...
  1 week ago

• Upcoming Show: Dave Matthews, Ben Harper & Gogol Bordello in 3D This Week

  
  Time to play b-sides — Authority: 99
  Starting Friday, December 11th and running until Thursday, December 17th in s elected theaters across the nation a new concert experience will occur. Titled “Larger than Life in 3D” it features concert footage of Dave Matthews Band from the Austin City Limits Festival this year, Ben Harper and the Restless 7 ...
  1 week ago

• When Saviors Become Victims: Trends of Attacks Against Aid Workers and Peacekeepers

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  Here’s a paradox: declining levels of worldwide conflict and increasing violence against aid workers. The Human Security Report has documented a worldwide decline in the number and intensity of armed conflicts since 1992. This is a dramatic and consistent, though the decline has slowed recently.Meanwhile, analysis ...
  1 week ago

• Sudan’s Fighting Forces: A Study in Numbers

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  This article emerges from an assignment which the author completed for Dr. Jo L. Husbands-Rosenberg at Georgetown University in Spring 2009. Using only open-source material — whatever could be obtained with a library card and the World Wide Web — students were asked to profile the commercial defense habits of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  A new book edited by Sara Pantuliano, Uncharted Territory: Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action (ODI and Practical Action, November 2009), breaks new ground in addressing the land dimension to crises, including Sudan.Land issues, particularly its access, ownership and use, are often central to understanding the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Um, OK

  
  World of Royalty Blog — Authority: 130
  Michael Jackson portrayed as king in portrait
  2 weeks ago

• Civil Society and Doha: Where Next?

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  It is disappointing how little attention there has been, including on this blog, to the civil society conference in Doha in mid-November, the first such meeting held under the auspices of the succeeding Mediations. Two weeks on, the only version of the final Doha Declaration I have seen comes (predictably) not from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tragedy of a People under Attack: Who is Responsible for the Failure?

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  Recently, two authors have published an interesting, thoughtful book titled The Scramble for Africa: Darfur—Intervention and the USA. The two authors of this book, Steven Fake and Kevin Funk, deeply analyze issues of particular significance, not only to the US public and foreign policy but also to the entire world. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blur’s got ‘No Distance Left to Run’

  
  20 Watts — Authority: 136
  I’ll be honest, I have a bias against band reunions. They are, for the most part, the lowest form of selling out, as well as beating a creative dead horse. Whether it’s The Cranberries or The Smashing Pumpkins , there is no doubt that these groups get back together more so to pay off their weening drug ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ethics and Power in Sudanic Africa

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  The second part of my review of Patrick Chabal, Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling, is posted at African Arguments. In this, I try to trace some of the key features of rule by the Sudanic kingdoms, arguing that they present a special case of patronage/clientelism, which both vindicates and elaborates ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ethics and Power in Africa

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  I have published the first part of a two-part review of Patrick Chabal’s Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling, on the African Arguments website. The first part is a general review of Bayart’s book, focusing on his treatment of patronage and clientelism. The second part will seek to explore the relevance ...
  3 weeks ago

• “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)” – Talking Heads...

  
  Some Songs Considered — Authority: 423
  “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)” – Talking Heads (Words/music: David Byrne/Chris Frantz/Jerry Harrison/Tina Weymouth, available on Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition , Sire 1999) First, let’s talk about this “Naïve Melody” business.  From their art school roots up through David Byrne’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Who is Killing? Who is Dying?

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  The AUPD Report includes an Appendix that compiles the existing data for violent fatalities in Darfur from 1 January 2008 until 31 July 2009. As many people have not read that part of the report (pages 107-115), it is excerpted and reproduced here: AUPD Annex B fatalities in DarfurSome assistance may be helpful in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Evidence-Based Peacekeeping

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  In most areas of public policy, gathering and analyzing evidence for the nature of the problem and the efficacy of response is a sine qua non for designing and implementing programs. The statistical analysis of disease patterns is the basis for public health policies and the discipline of epidemiology. Police services ...
  4 weeks ago

• Unhappy Eid for the CPA

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 119
  In the last month Sudan’s Government has forfeited the title ‘of National Unity.’ Cooperation between the NCP and SPLM hardly exists even in name. This week poses an important test of whether it warrants the name ‘Government’ at all.Sudan long ago failed many of the basic tests of governance. It doesn’t ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hello.

  
  KaYotiC ? — Authority: 121
  no pictures today. not obliged to tell you why though. Ive been wearing studs everyday for a month now and i honestly miss wearing my long, dangling earrings. Ive always been an earrings person, but i dont know what changed me. when i put on those newly bought, red, beaded long earrings i felt a bit weird- as if ...
  4 weeks ago

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