Social Science Research Council

On 27 August, President Bashir attended Kenya’s celebrations for the promulgation of the new constitution. For the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC this was a reason to take a “Decision informing the United Nations Security Council and the Assembly of the States Parties to the Rome Statute about Omar Al-Bashir’s presence in the territory of [...]

Part 3: Why Mr. Bassole and Company Must Go On Mr. Djibril Bassole 1- Darfur conflict is not Togo and the “Inter-Togolese Dialogue” process. It is not Niger and Tuareg. It is not Cote d` Ivoire either. Mr. Bassole was involved in all those with President Blaise Campaore`. In Darfur, he does not have the [...]

Tag El-Khazin is trying to shoot down the only peace process that can bring peace to Darfur. His article begins with a false assumption and this leads him to a wrong conclusion. He thinks that Darfur is an ordinary conflict and the toolbox of negotiating techniques that have been used in other conflicts can be [...]

If Sudan’s domestic partitionists and their foreign backers have their way there will be a new border in Africa by the same time next year that will be as meaningless to the cattle pastoralists and other nomadic ethnic groups as the other borders created during the imperial conquest of Africa and the subsequent decolonisation decades [...]

Part 2: The model structure of mediation and what we have in Doha as Mediation and Process and identifying the gaps The content of this set of 3 papers exposes and details why Doha has failed and shall continue to fail unless structural reforms are done to the Process and competent mediation personnel are engaged [...]

This article is inspired by two events: The apparent loss and disorientation of the Joint AU/UN Chief Mediator for Darfur Mr. Djibril Bassole and the continued unbecoming statements from Mr. Bassole and from the Qatari State actors(1) dealing with the file. It is also inspired, in part, by the emerging news that Libya may be [...]

Recent months have witnessed the phenomenon of a growing chorus of criticisms of the Doha peace process. Carping is to be expected during any long drawn out peace negotiations and without any doubt the JCM Minister Bassole will have to answer many questions about his choice of strategy and tactics when the process finally concludes. [...]

According to the data gathered by UNAMID, there were 144 fatalities due to violence during July 2010. Each of the last few months has followed its own distinctive pattern and July was different again. Usual caveats apply. The majority of fatalities (112) were due to armed conflict, of which 107 were in North Darfur, principally [...]

24 Hours for Darfur recently released “Darfurian Voices,” a report detailing the results of the first ever representative survey of Darfurian refugees’ opinions on peace, justice, and reconciliation. The US-based non-profit research organization spent four months in the 12 Darfurian refugee camps in eastern Chad, interviewing 1872 randomly-sampled civilians and 280 civil society and rebel [...]

On 23 November 2004 at 6:00 a.m., the village of Adwa in South Darfur was attacked by the Sudanese army and the Janajaweed militia. Most villagers were still asleep, or had woken up for the morning prayer, while two helicopter gun-ships and an Antonov plane approached the village. Meanwhile, heavily armed militia men entered the [...]