http://blogs.ssrc.org/darfur/2008/06/02/complex-emergencies/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:36:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/darfur/2008/06/02/complex-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-3369 Bjørn Ivar Kruke Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:30:37 +0000 http://blogs.ssrc.org/darfur/?p=506#comment-3369 David Keen has presented a book covering major characteristics of complex emergencies. His discussions of the complex emergency in Darfur are important, because this emergency comprises many of the characteristics seen in most other complex emergencies. The latest emergency in Darfur is also just another of many emergencies in Sudan, and therefore a sign of a lack of ability and will, both domestic and on the international arena, to provide political solutions to the problems in Sudan. This is also seen in many other complex emergency areas. A major question therefore is how the international community can deal with large-scale atrocities by governments in their own country, in emergencies where the government denies international military, humanitarian and political interventions. David Keen has presented a book covering major characteristics of complex emergencies. His discussions of the complex emergency in Darfur are important, because this emergency comprises many of the characteristics seen in most other complex emergencies. The latest emergency in Darfur is also just another of many emergencies in Sudan, and therefore a sign of a lack of ability and will, both domestic and on the international arena, to provide political solutions to the problems in Sudan. This is also seen in many other complex emergency areas. A major question therefore is how the international community can deal with large-scale atrocities by governments in their own country, in emergencies where the government denies international military, humanitarian and political interventions.

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