Social Science Research Council

US Senator John Kerry reports that due to Khartoum’s decision to “engage in a new dialogue with us, some of that capacity for humanitarian assistance will be restored.” The mass-expulsion of aid agencies from Darfur six weeks ago showed in a single stroke just how vital and vulnerable “that capacity” can be. It [...]

The response of many to Biafra forty years ago was not just against the blockage of aid by General Yakubu Gowon but against the way aid itself was conducted. Our response to Darfur today, if learning comes from this crisis, could be not just against the blockage of aid by General Omar al Bashir [...]