Social Science Research Council

What is a ‘low-intensity conflict’? It is still a conflict. Even though lethal violence is low, the other other dimensions to the conflict may continue with a high intensity, including a risk of high-intensity violence.
In this posting I will examine the debate around the question of how to define a ‘low-intensity conflict’ and what [...]

The AU Panel has spent between six and ten hours each day, for the last week, in meetings with large delegations from Darfurian civil society, native administration, IDPs and pastoralists, as well as national political parties. Today, at a hearing with civil society groups in el Geneina, Justice Florence Mumba asked, “Why are there no [...]

Nowhere to Turn is a report documenting the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence experienced by women who fled attacks on their villages in Darfur and are now refugees in neighboring Chad. This study was conducted by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in partnership with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI).

The study team [...]

Amal Hassan Fadlalla is a Sudanese anthropologist living in America, and it is revealing that she chose to publish her analysis of the U.S. movement for Darfur, “The Neoliberalization of Compassion: Darfur and the Mediation of American Faith, Fear and Terror,” in a volume with the theme of “neoliberalism and the erosion of democracy [...]

(The following essay is posted on behalf of Selma Scheewe. The author based this essay on her Thesis titled “Sexual Violence and HIV/AIDS in Conflict-ridden Darfur”, at the University of Groningen.)
Introduction
Sexual violence is a prominent aspect of many recent conflicts. In the media and the reports of humanitarian agencies, this sexual violence is often linked [...]