Social Science Research Council

I was truly fascinated by Izzadine Abdul Rasoul’s article “Janjaweeds in US State Department” published in the Sudan Tribune on October 25, 2009.
Mr. Abdul Rasoul is said to be a stringer for the [New York] Times but seems to have a less than convincing command of the English language.
Intrigued by this situation I began [...]

I would like to address Jeff Howell’s comments, posted on September 28, 2009 to Annette Jansen’s posting: “Drawn by Disasters: Why the Human Rights Movement Struggles with Good News Stories.”

Mr. Howell states that the report cited by Ms. Jansen terminated in 2002. He also wrote: “It would be interesting to know what those figures [...]

As an American citizen, it is breathtakingly embarrassing to read of such ill-conceived ideas, and the widespread support that they enjoy in the United States, such as the call to fast on Eid ul-Fitr by members of America’s Darfur campaign pointed out by Alex de Waal in a recent post.
The focus of the effort [...]

Two things are immediately noticeable about Kevin Funk’s and Steven Fake’s Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA. The first is the long list of excerpts from positive pre-publication reviews at the front of the book. (Among the 16 reviews listed, the comment by Princeton’s Richard Falk that the book is “utterly convincing” [...]