Sudan Research, Analysis, and Advocacy

Eric Reeves

Eric ReevesThis site links to electronically published analytic briefs and advocacy writings on Sudan by Eric Reeves. These have been organized chronologically, and include all electronic publications since the signing of the historic Machakos Protocol (July 2002). There are separate links for publications in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. There is also a separate link for analyses published from July 2002 to December 2003 and another for yet earlier pieces, primarily related to oil development in southern Sudan and pre-July 2002 stages of the peace process involving the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).

There are also links to a number of Reeves' formal publications in newspapers, news magazines, academic journals, and human rights publications, as well as the texts of his Congressional testimony. Finally, a complete list of publications, testimony, and academic presentations is also linked, as is a grouping of profiles of his work.

(Click on Archive for all links.)

Eric Reeves is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past eleven years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history. His book about Darfur (A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide) was published in May 2007. (Read critical praise for A Long Day's Dying.)

He is also at work on a longer-range project surveying the international response to ongoing war and human destruction over the past 25 years ("Sudan – Suffering a Long Way Off"). The project will survey not only the history of Darfur, and the world's failure to halt the first genocide of the 21st century, but the substitution — for over two decades — of humanitarian aid for diplomatic resolve to end conflict in South Sudan and the transitional areas along the North/South border.

The contents of this website, as well as other electronic files and hard copy—including a range of Sudan–related publications, written materials, photographs, and maps—are presently being archived in the human rights division of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs, Connecticut.

 

“The Annoyance of International Justice,” Dissent Magazine (on-line)

Posted by: ereeves on Monday, July 26, 2010 - 08:41 PM
“The Annoyance of International Justice,” from Dissent (on-line), July 26, 2010
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/atw.php

Eric Reeves

“On Confidential Sources in Sudan,” Dissent Magazine (on-line)

Posted by: ereeves on Monday, July 12, 2010 - 02:25 PM
Current Sudan News
“On Confidential Sources in Sudan," July 12, 2010
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=200

Eric Reeves

Humanitarian Conditions in Darfur: An Overview (Part 2)

Posted by: ereeves on Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 02:11 AM
Current Sudan News
Humanitarian Conditions in Darfur: An Overview (Part 2)

Security for civilians and humanitarians in Darfur has entered freefall, clearly by design on the part of the National Congress Party regime in Khartoum. The kidnapping of humanitarian workers and the killing of UNAMID troops, especially in areas controlled by Khartoum and its militia allies, has created an unprecedented crisis, threatening aid operations throughout Darfur. With this as context, the present analysis focuses on information and data concerning humanitarian conditions in Darfur and eastern Chad, looking particularly at water, sanitation, and primary medical care. Part 1 addressed issues of humanitarian access, capacity, food security, and the deterrent effect of humanitarian presence in the midst of attacks on civilians. To gain even a partial overview of broader conditions on the ground is to see how precipitously and massively destructive withdrawal by humanitarian organizations and UNAMID would be.
(Part 1 of this analysis can be found at http://www.sudanreeves.org/Article264.html )

Eric Reeves
July 3, 2010

“Sudan’s Next War and the Failure of US Leadership”

Posted by: ereeves on Monday, June 21, 2010 - 04:58 PM
Current Sudan News
“Sudan’s Next War and the Failure of US Leadership”
Dissent Magazine (on-line), June 21-24, 2010 (lead article)
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=363

Eric Reeves

Humanitarian Conditions in Darfur: An Overview (Part 1)

Posted by: ereeves on Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 03:16 PM
Current Sudan News
Humanitarian Conditions in Darfur: An Overview (Part 1)

As the rainy season begins in earnest and the hunger gap deepens, there are many alarming reports about food security and malnutrition. Yet severe restrictions of access for humanitarian workers and deliveries have yet again been imposed by Khartoum. Final withdrawal of the Justice and Equality Movement from the Doha “peace process” comes as rebel movements and Khartoum increase their military forces, auguring a major escalation in what has already been heavy fighting this year. Yet again, Darfur stares into the abyss.
(Part 2 of this analysis can be found at http://www.sudanreeves.org/Article266.html )

Eric Reeves
June 18, 2010

“What Khartoum Has Learned from Its Electoral ‘Triumph’”

Posted by: ereeves on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 09:00 PM
Current Sudan News
“What Khartoum Has Learned from Its Electoral ‘Triumph’”
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=135

Eric Reeves
May 13, 2010

Sudan: Election Crisis Reveals a Country Lurching Toward War

Posted by: ereeves on Monday, November 09, 2009 - 07:28 PM
Current Sudan News
There is growing awareness that national elections scheduled for April 2010 will fail on many counts, with unpredictable consequences for the Khartoum regime’s ambitions to retain its stranglehold on Sudanese national wealth and power. In turn, the prospect of an aborted or compromised Southern self-determination referendum (January 2011) looms ever closer, with the potential to trigger unfathomable destruction.

Eric Reeves
November 9, 2009

Khartoum’s Strategic Assault on Southern Self-Determination Referendum

Posted by: ereeves on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 02:41 AM
Current Sudan News
As prospects for free and fair national elections in April 2010 continue to wither, as Darfur’s ghastly status quo is preserved, the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime has set its sights more directly on undermining the key provision of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a self-determination referendum for Southern Sudan

Eric Reeves
August 25, 2009

Sudan Elections and Southern Self-Determination: At Growing Risk

Posted by: ereeves on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 10:43 PM
Current Sudan News
Increasingly pessimistic assessments of Sudan’s scheduled national elections (February 2010) make clear that the 2011 Self-Determination Referendum is deeply endangered. If the referendum is aborted, or occurs amidst the grim environment in prospect, it will re-ignite country-wide war

Eric Reeves
June 28, 2009

QUANTIFYING GENOCIDE IN DARFUR: April 28, 2006 (Part 1)

Posted by: ereeves on Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 03:04 PM
Current Sudan News
Current data for total mortality from violence, malnutrition, and disease
UPDATED May 18, 2010
(Part 2 at http://www.sudanreeves.org/Article104.html )

Eric Reeves
April 28, 2006