Social Science Research Council

There are just four weeks to go before polling stations are set to open across Sudan, giving voters a choice of political parties for the first time in 24 years. For many people in the country this will be the first time they will ever vote. The coming moment is historic.
The incumbent regime in [...]

In the growing debate on the approach and impacts of international advocacy on Darfur, largely articulated through human rights discourse, the focus so far has tended to be on how it affects international perceptions of the conflict and the consequent responses elicited. In this article however, I would like to ask a different but important [...]

I was lucky enough to have benefited from the many astute reviews of Saviors and Survivors before I read it, which provided me with a caution to its weaknesses. Yet by the end of the book I was convinced that these weaknesses were less relevant than is strengths, and that there is great potential [...]

Having oscillated between exhilaration and despair in my experience with humanitarianism, finding a middle ground (what I call a ‘critical-hope’ position) has been and continues to be a challenge. This article seeks to present a critically-hopeful analysis of mainstream advocacy and where its future could perhaps lie.
Advocacy organisations form an increasingly powerful subset of humanitarian [...]

Within a few hours of the issues of the arrest warrant for President Omar el Bashir, the Government of Sudan revoked the licenses of ten international aid agencies working in Darfur and two Sudanese human rights organisations. Since then a further three organisations have been expelled from the country. The international organisations expelled are no [...]