Darfur
Today, President Bush announced that the U.S. will be imposing economic sanctions against Sudan.
For those interested in learning more about the situation in Darfur, Amsterdam University Press recently published Explaining Darfur: Lectures on the Ongoing Genocide.
Despite serious pressure from the United Nations, public statements of outrage from the United States, and now sanctions—the war in Darfur, Sudan, continues unabated. Many in the West still have only a very limited understanding of either the conflict or the forces driving it.
Explaining Darfur provides essential resources for understanding the conflict in Darfur, from the historical background to an analysis of the present situation. It also proposes several nonviolent ways of solving the crisis, from the democratization of the Sudan to reconciliation negotiations between tribes at all levels to dramatically expanding the operational capacity of the peacekeeping troops supplied by the African Union. Initiated by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, this will be the definitive study of the ongoing Darfur conflict and its possible solutions.