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My fourth posting on the theme of “How Genocides End” applies the lessons of the inquiry to the case of Darfur.
It is, of course, far from evident that the legal definition of genocide, as found in the Genocide Convention, should apply to Darfur. The definition of genocide is at once so restrictive in its requirement [...]

Having originally intended this to be a three-part posting, I am inserting an extra short essay focusing on Sudan, before applying the framework to the case of Darfur.
The Sudanese civil wars of the last quarter century have witnessed perhaps half a dozen episodes of extreme violence. The most striking cases include the militia raids into [...]

The project ‘How Genocides End’ included the 2004 ‘Back from the Brink’ seminar at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the SSRC Webforum, and two seminars at Harvard, co-convened by Jens Meierhenrich, during 2008. What are the preliminary conclusions? This posting is a personal reflection on the outcomes thus far.
Our first finding–emphasized by Dirk Moses–is that there [...]

This is the first of three postings on the topic ‘How Genocides End,’ a topic which has interested me for ten years. This first posting explains my personal interest in the subject, sparked by work in the Nuba Mountains in 1995. The next posting will raise general issues and the third will focus upon Darfur.
My [...]