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Category Archives: darfur
Libya’s democratic future and lessons from Darfur and the Sahel
Deep into the Sahel and away from the glare of publicity that has accompanied the past six months of NATO-assisted civil war in Libya, there is a common saying with particular relevance today in the Libyan southern deserts: “Al-ando Kalash, … Continue reading
Posted in darfur, sudan, Uncategorized
Tagged darfur, grass roots, libya, sudan, tribal reconciliation
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Narrative Construction: “The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis”
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, darfur, somalia, sudan, Uncategorized
Tagged communications, communications strategy, narrative
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Selecting Darfur: From Human Rights Reporting to the Media Narrative
To a considerable extent, crises in far-off lands are defined by foreigners and not by those living through them, which then creates a perceived moral imperative to do something about it. Darfur became Darfur when the West got involved, and … Continue reading
Uganda’s stakes in peace in Somalia..
“What we are going to do in Somalia is to empower our brothers to rebuild their state.” Words of Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni, whose country deployed troops to Somalia in response to IGAD’s 2005 call to African countries to contribute … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, darfur, somalia
Tagged AMISOM, burrundi, people of somalia, somaliland, somalis, uganda
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Darfur and compassion fatigue..
Writing in the New York Review of Books recently, Pullitzer winner and Darfur advocate Nicholas Kristof noted that “Darfur fatigue” had set in, and that “the [Save Darfur] movement has lost its steam.” A close analysis of the frequency with … Continue reading
The changing theatre of Strategic Communications
The Albany Associates London conference on strategic communications noted some success in its practice in the 1990s, but a catalogue of failures in the 21st century. Why has the wisdom gleaned from the former not informed the latter? The practice … Continue reading
Posted in afghanistan, Africa, darfur, somalia, sudan, UK Government
Tagged communications strategy, conference, strategic communications
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The Absence of the Western Media from Darfur in 2003
For Darfuris, 2003 was the year of highest-intensity conflict, but it was a very quiet year for Western media and advocacy, who were very slow in cottoning on to the unfolding tragedy. Why is this? Where were they? Debates rage … Continue reading
The Politics of numbers
For Darfur watchers, the death toll is as much a political statement as an expression of fact. For those with just a passing interest in the region, ascertaining the number who have died involves making judgements on the credibility of … Continue reading
Bashir’s indictment complicates an already complex situation in Darfur.
Opinion is split on whether the indictment for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of President Al Bashir of Sudan is a good or a bad thing for peace in Darfur. Given the scale of the tragedy there … Continue reading
