Resources on Sudan

swisspeace publications

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Background

Sudan as a whole

 

  • Burr J. Millard and Robert O. Collins: Requiem for the Sudan: War, Drought, and Disaster Relief on the Nile. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
  • Churchill, Winston S.: The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London: Longman's, Greens and Co., 1899.
  • Collins, Robert O.: A History of Modern Sudan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
  • Deng, Francis M.: Customary Law in the Modern World: The Crossfire of Sudan's War of Identities. London: Routledge, 2009.
  • Deng, Francis M.: The War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995.
  • De Waal, Alex: Sudan: International Dimensions to the State and its Crisis. Occasional Paper No. 3, Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics, April 2007. Download. 
  • Elnur, Ibrahim: Contested Sudan: The Political Economy of War and Reconstruction. London: Routledge, 2009.
  • Holt, Peter M. and M. W. Daly (5th ed.): A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day. London, New York: Longman, 2000.
  • Johnson, Douglas: The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. Oxford: James Currey, 2003.
  • Jok Madut Jok: War and slavery in Sudan. Philadelphia, PN: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
  • Jok Madut Jok: Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence. Oxford: Oneworld, 2007.
  • Keen, David: The Benefits of Famine: A Political Economy of Famine and Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983-1989. Oxford: James Currey, 2008.  
  • Khalid, Mansour: War and Peace in Sudan: A Tale of Two Countries. London: Keegan Paul, 2003.
  • Lesch, Ann Mosely: The Sudan: Contested National Identities. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998.
  • Malwal, Bona. People and Power in Sudan: The Struggle for National Stability. London: Ithaca Press, 1981.
  • Sørbø, Gunnar M. Local Violence and International Intervention in Sudan. In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 37, No. 124, 2010.

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South Sudan

  • Beswick, Stephanie: Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity and Slavery in South Sudan. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004.
  • Branch, Adam and Zachariah Cherian Mampilly: Winning the War, but Losing the Peace? The Dilemma of SPLM/A Civil Administration and the Tasks Ahead. In: The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1., 2005, pp. 1-20. Link. 
  • Deng, Francis M.: The Man Called Deng Majok: A Biography of Power, Polygyny and Change. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1987. 
  • Evans-Pritchard, Edward E.: The Nuer: A description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
  • Hutchinson, Sharon E.: Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
  • Johnson, Douglas H.: Why Abyei Matters: The Breaking Point of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement? In: African Affairs, Vol. 107, No. 426, 2008, pp. 1-19. Link.
  • Leonardi, Cherry: 'Liberation' or Capture: Youth in between 'Hakuma' and 'Home' during Civil War and its Aftermath in Sudan. African Affairs, Vol. 424, 2007, pp. 391 - 412. Link.
  • Lienhardt, Godfrey: Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
  • Nyaba, Peter Adwok: The Politics of Liberation in South Sudan: An Insider's View. Michigan State University Press, 1997.
  • Rolandsen, Øystein: Guerilla Government: Political Changes in the Southern Sudan during the 1990s. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2005.
  • Schomerus, Mareike and Tim Allen. Southern Sudan at Odds with Itself: Dynamics of Conflict and Predicaments of Peace. London: London School of Economics, 2010. Download.

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Darfur

  • Brunk, Darren: Dissecting Darfur: Anatomy of a Genocide Debate. In: International Relations, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2008, pp. 25-44. Link.
  • Daly, M. V.: Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • De Waal, Alex: Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap. In: London Review of Books, 4 August 2004. Link. 
  • De Waal, Alex: Who are the Darfurians? Arab and African Identities, Violence and External Engagement. In: African Affairs, Vol. 104, 2005, pp. 181-205. Link.
  • De Waal, Alex (ed.): War in Darfur and the Search for Peace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Review.
  • Flint, Julie and Alex de Waal: Darfur: A New History of a Long War. London: Zed Books, 2008. Review of earlier edition.
  • Mamdani, Mahmood: Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. New York, NY: Pantheon Press, 2009. Review. NY Times Review of Books.
  • Nathan, Laurie: No Ownership, No Peace: The Darfur Peace Agreement. Working Paper No. 5, Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics, September 2006. Download.
  • O'Fahey, R. S.: The Darfur Sultanate: A History. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2008.
  • Prunier, Gérard: Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide (3rd ed.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. Review of earlier edition.

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Reports

Recent policy reports

  • Heinrich Böll Foundation: Sudan - No Easy Ways Ahead. Berlin: Heinrich Böll Foundation, March 2010. Download.
  • Marc Gustafson: Electoral Deisgn: Proportionality, Representation and Constituency Boundaries in Sudan?s 2010 Elections, Rift Valley Institute, February 2010. Download.
  • Edward, Thomas: Decisions and Deadlines: A Critical Year for Sudan. London: Chatham House, January 2010. Download.
  • Flint, Julie: Rhetoric and Reality: The Failure to Resolve the Darfur Conflict Geneva: Small Arms Survey, January 2010. Download
  • International Crisis Group: Jonglei's Tribal Conflicts: Countering Insecurity in South Sudan.Africa Report No. 154, 23 December 2009. Link
  • International Crisis Group: Sudan: Preventing Implosion. Africa Briefing No. 68, 17 December 2009. Link
  • Small Arms Survey: Supply and Demand: Arms Flows and Holdings in Sudan. Sudan Issue Brief, No. 15, December 2009. Download
  • Flint, Julie: Beyond 'Janjaweed': Understanding the Militias of Darfur. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, 12 June 2009. Download.
  • Willis, Justin, Atta el-Battahani and Peter Woodward: Elections in Sudan: Learning from Experience. Rift Valley Institute Report, May 2009. Download. 
  • Pantuliano, Sara, Omer Egemi, Babo Fadlalla, Mohammed Farah with Mohammed Elamin Abdelgadir: Put Out to Pasture: War, Oil and the Decline of Misseriyya Pastoralism in Sudan. Overseas Development Institute Report, March 2009. Download.
  • Thomas, Edward: Against the Gathering Storm: Securing Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Chatham House Report, January 2009. Download. 

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Policy-relevant research

  • Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics: Home page.
  • German Institute for International and Security Affairs: Africa page (mostly German) 

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Periodic reports on the situation in Sudan

  • CPA Assessment and Evaluation Commission: Home page.
  • Southern Sudan Commission for Census, Statistics and Evaluation: Home page.

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Key documents

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

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Media and Blogs

Sudanese media

Blogs

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International media

Maps

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