Sudan as a Whole

Churchill, Winston S., 1899.
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
London, Longman's, Greens and Co.

Collins, Robert O., 2008.
A History of Modern Sudan
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Deng, Francis M., 1995.
The War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan
Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution.

de Waal, Alex, 2007.
Sudan: International Dimensions to the State and its Crisis
Occasional Paper 3, Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics. download

Elnur, Ibrahim, 2009.
Contested Sudan: The Political Economy of War and Reconstruction
London, Routledge.

Holt, Peter M. and M. W. Daly, 2000.
A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day
London, New York, Longman.

Johnson, Douglas, 2003.
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
Oxford, James Currey.

Jok Madut Jok, 2007.
Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence
Oxford, Oneworld.

Khalid, Mansour, 2003.
War and Peace in Sudan: A Tale of Two Countries
London, Keegan Paul.

Malwal, Bona, 1981.
People and Power in Sudan: The Struggle for National Stability
London, Ithaca Press.

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South Sudan

Beswick, Stephanie, 2007.
Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity and Slavery in South Sudan.
Rochester, NY, University of Rochester Press.

Evans-Pritchard, Edward E., 1987.
The Nuer: A description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Hutchinson, Sharon E., 1996.
Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State
Berkley, CA, University of California Press.

Johnson, Douglas H., 2008.
Why Abyei Matters: The Breaking Point of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement?
In: African Affairs, 107(426), pp. 1-19. Article

Lienhardt, Godfrey, 1987.
Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka
Oxford, Clarendon Press.

Nyaba, Peter Adwok. 1997.
The Politics of Liberation in South Sudan: An Insider's View
Michigan State University Press, 1997.

Rolandsen, Øystein, 2005.
Guerilla Government: Political Changes in the Southern Sudan during the 1990s
Uppsala, Nordic Africa Institute.

Schomerus, Mareike and Tim Allen, 2010.
Southern Sudan at Odds with Itself: Dynamics of Conflict and Predicaments of Peace
London, London School of Economics. download

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Darfur

Daly, M. V., 2007.
Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide
New York, NY, Cambridge University Press.

de Waal, Alex. 2004.
Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap
In: London Review of Books. Article

de Waal, Alex, 2005
Who are the Darfurians? Arab and African Identities, Violence and External Engagement
In: African Affairs, 104(415), pp. 181-205. Article

de Waal, Alex (ed.), 2007.
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. Review

Flint, Julie and Alex de Waal, 2008.
Darfur: A New History of a Long War
London, Zed Books. Review

Mamdani, Mahmood, 2009.
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror
New York, NY, Pantheon Press. Review / NY Times Review

Nathan, Laurie, 2006.
No Ownership, No Peace: The Darfur Peace Agreement
Working Paper 5, Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics. download

O'Fahey, R. S., 2008.
The Darfur Sultanate: A History
New York, NY, Columbia University Press.

Prunier, Gérard, 2008.
Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide (3rd ed.)
Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press.

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Reports

Recent Policy Reports

Bennett, Jon et al., 2010.
Aiding the Peace: A Multi-donor Evaluation of Support to Conflict Prevention and
Peacebuilding Activities in Southern Sudan 2005-2010
ITAD Ltd., UK. Article

Downie, Richard and Brian Kennedy, 2010.
Sudanese Perspectives on the 2010 Referendum
CSIS Africa Program. download

Verjee, Aly, 2010.
Race Against Time: The countdown to the referenda in Southern Sudan and Abyei
Rift Valley Institute. download

International Crisis Group, 2010.
Negotiating Sudan’s North-South Future
Africa Briefing, 76. download

International Crisis Group, 2010.
Sudan: Defining the North-South Border
Africa Briefing, 75. download

Weber, Annette, 2010.
Der politische Raum in Sudan. Zwischen Status quo, Fragmentierung und Bürgerkrieg
SWP-Studie Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Deutsches Insitut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit. download

Weber, Annette and Anja Dargatz, 2010.
Sudan und Somalia - Weichensteller am Horn von Afrika
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. download

Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2010.
Sudan - No Easy Ways Ahead
Berlin, Heinrich Böll Foundation. download

Marc Gustafson, 2010.
Electoral Deisgn: Proportionality, Representation and Constituency Boundaries in Sudan’s 2010 Elections
Rift Valley Institute. download

Edward, Thomas, 2010.
Decisions and Deadlines: A Critical Year for Sudan
London, Chatham House. download

Flint, Julie, 2010.
Rhetoric and Reality: The Failure to Resolve the Darfur Conflict
Geneva, Small Arms Survey. download

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Key documents

Government of Southern Sudan, 2010.
Donor Book 2010
download

Government of the Republic of the Sudan and Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, 9 January 2005.
Comprehensive Peace Agreement
download

UN Security Council, 24 March 2005.
Resolution 1590. (Mandate of UNMIS)
download

Government of Southern Sudan, 2005.
The Interim Constitution of Southern Sudan
download

Petterson, Donald, Kassahun Berhanu, Shadrack B.O. Gutto, Douglas Johnson, Godfrey Muriuki, 14 July 2005.
Abyei Boundaries Commission Report

Government of the Republic of the Sudan and Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (Minni Minawi), 6 May 2006.
Darfur Peace Agreement

UN Security Council, 31 July 2007.
Resolution 1769. (Mandate UNAMID)
download

Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, 11 July 2008.
Final Award of Abyei Arbitration; Press Release and Summaryof final award

National Assembly of Sudan, 2008.
The National Election Act
download

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Blogs
Alex de Waal, Making Sense of Sudan Blog on Darfur
Rebecca Hamilton Blog on Sudan
Sudan Watch Blog on Sudan
Peter Martell Blog on South Sudan
Harriet Martin Blog on Sudan

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