Save Darfur: A movement and its discontents

African Affairs

Volumn 108, Issue 433, 2009, Pages 669-677

  Lanz, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 70349542593     PISSN: 00019909     EISSN: 14682621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adp061     Document Type: Note

References (39)

1. Mahmood Mamdani, Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, politics, and the War on Terror (Verso, London, 2009).
2. Throughout the text, 'Save Darfur' refers to the multitude of organizations that work to raise awareness about and bring an end to what they consider the genocide in Darfur. Many, but not all of these organizations are part of the official 'Save Darfur Coalition', founded in July 2004 in New York to coordinate Darfur advocacy efforts. See the website of the Save Darfur Coalition, (all websites cited in this article were accessed on 13 July 2009).
3. Mamdani, Saviours and Survivors, pp. 6, 300.
4. For the state of the art of the doctrine, see a recent book by one of the principle architects of R2P: Gareth Evans, The Responsibility to Protect: Ending mass atrocity crimes once and for all (Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 2008).
5. For the application of R2P in the context of Darfur, see Nick Grono, 'Briefing - The international community's failure to protect', African Affairs 105, 421 (2006), pp. 621-31.
6. See Deborah Murphy, 'Narrating Darfur: Darfur in the US press, March-September 2004' in Alex de Waal (ed.), War in Darfur and the Search for Peace (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 314-36.
7. See Alan Wolfe, 'Empty nest: The demise of a species', World Affairs (Winter 2009).
8. Rebecca Hamilton and Chad Hazlett, '"Not on our watch": The emergence of the American movement for Darfur' in Alex de Waal (ed.), War in Darfur, pp. 337-66, pp. 362-3.
9. Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy, 'We are pushing and pushing to save the Darfuris', The Times, 31 August 2007, p. 19.
10. For details of the divestment campaign, see an account by two Darfur activists associated with the Enough Project: Colin Thomas-Jensen and Julia Spiegel, 'Activism and Darfur: Slowly driving policy change', Fordham International Law Journal 31, 4 (2008), pp. 843-58.
11. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, 'Bush tightens penalties against Sudan', New York Times, 29 May 2007.
12. Helen Cooper, 'Darfur collides with Olympics, and China yields', New York Times, 13 April 2007.
13. Daniel Large, 'China and the contradictions of "non-interference" in Sudan', Review of African Political Economy 35, 115 (2008), pp. 93-106.
14. See, for example, Eric Reeves, 'Regime change in Sudan', Washington Post, 23 August 2004.
15. Jaïr van der Lijn, To Paint the Nile Blue: Factors of success and failure of UNMIS and UNAMID (Clingendael Institute and Radbound University Nijmegen, The Hague, 2008).
16. Björn Seibert, 'African Adventure? Assessing the European Union's military intervention in Chad and the Central African Republic' (MIT Security Studies Program working paper, Boston, November 2007).
17. Zachary Kaufman, 'Justice in jeopardy: Accountability for the Darfur atrocities', Criminal Law Forum 16, 3-4 (2005), pp. 343-60.
18. Fabrice Weissman, 'Humanitarian dilemmas inDarfur' (Médecins Sans Frontières working paper, July 2008), .
19. Mahmood Mamdani, 'The politics of naming: Genocide, civil war, insurgency', London Review of Books, 8 March 2007.
20. Darran Brunk, 'Dissecting Darfur: Anatomy of a genocide debate', International Relations 28, 1 (2008), pp. 25-44.
21. Mahmood Mamdani, 'Mamdani responds to his critics II', .
22. This is a point that Mamdani makes throughout Saviours and Survivors
23. Alex de Waal, 'Sudan: International dimensions to the state and its crisis' (Occasional Paper No. 3, LSE Crisis States Research Centre, London, April 2007).
24. A similar argument is made by Steven Fake and Kevin Funk, The Scramble for Africa: Darfur, intervention and the US (Black Rose Books, Montreal, 2009).
25. For more on Alex de Waal's critique of Save Darfur, see his debate with one of the leaders of the Save Darfur movement, John Prendergast: 'Dueling over Darfur', Newsweek, .
26. For nuanced, although different accounts of the causes of the war in Darfur, see M. V. Daly, Darfur's Sorrow: A history of destruction and genocide (Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2007)
27. Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, Darfur: A new history of a long war (Zed Books, London, 2008)
28. Gérard Prunier, Darfur: A twenty-first century genocide, third edition (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2008).
29. Mamdani, Saviours and Survivors, p. 16.
30. Murphy, 'Narrating Darfur', pp. 315-17.
31. Julie Flint, 'Including Darfur's Arabs in the peace process', .
32. Colum Lynch, 'Rebels charged with war crimes in Sudan', Washington Post, 18 May 2009.
33. Quoted in Alex de Waal, 'I will not sign', London Review of Books, 30 November 2006.
34. Alex de Waal, 'Darfur and the failure of the responsibility to protect', International Affairs 83, 6 (2007), pp. 1039-54.
35. Laurie Nathan, 'No ownership, no peace: The Darfur peace agreement' (Working Paper No. 5, LSE Crisis States Research Centre, London, September 2006).
36. Julie Flint, 'Darfur, saving itself', Washington Post, 3 June 2007.
37. Julie Flint, 'In Sudan, help comes from above', New York Times, 6 July 2007.
38. See Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the age of genocide (Basic Books, New York, NY, 2002).
39. For an argument to apply the 'Do No Harm' approach arising from humanitarian aid to Darfur advocacy, see Medina Haeri, 'Saving Darfur: Does Advocacy Help or Hinder Conflict Resolution?', Praxis 13 (2008), pp. 33-46, 43-4.