Past and current analyses of particular importance (Back to link categories)

• “The Road back from Abyei,” Douglas H. Johnson
  The single best, most informed analysis of the current Abyei crisis, with superb historical background. Johnson’s trenchant critique of Obama administration policy—particularly as guided by former special envoy Scott Gration—is devastating.
  
  
• “Wagining Peace in Sudan,” Hilde F. Johnson
  An extraordinarily detailed insider’s look at the Naivasha negotiations that led to consummation of the 2005 “Comprehensive Peace Agreement.” No one was more intimately involved in these difficult and detailed negotiations than Norway’s Hilde Johnso
  
  
• “Abyei: Sudan’s Other Referendum,” Roger Winter, September 16, 2010
  This account of the dangers posed by the collapse of the Abyei referendum process—now deeply endangered—is authoritative, detailed, and chilling in its conclusions. This article is essential reading for any full understanding of the risks posed by re
  
  
• “Darfurian Voices”
  An extraordinarily powerful compendium of Darfurian voices and views—voices and views too often ignored by the international community. An important report and statistical overview is also available, based on extensive research in eastern Chad from Apr
  
  
• “Documenting Atrocities in Darfur” (Coalition for International Justice), Fall 2004
  This document, critical to any account of early violent mortality in the Darfur genocide, was commissioned by the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development. The report has been suspiciously removed from the official State Depart
  
  
• “Why the Killing in Darfur is Genocide,” Jennifer Trahan, Fordham Law Review
  This May 2008 law review article is superbly researched, compellingly argued, and the most comprehensive assessment of legal considerations bearing on ethnically-targeted human destruction in Darfur. It is a landmark essay.
  
  
• Nowhere to Turn: Failure to Protect, Support, and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women”
  An exceptionally important new report (May 31, 2009) from Physicians for Human Rights and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, presenting findings from an investigation of rape and gender-based violence among Darfuri refugees in Eastern Chad.
  
  
• “On Our Watch,” FRONTLINE (PBS) documentary on Darfur
  Directed by Neil Docherty, “On Our Watch” is the best, most telling documentary to date on the Darfur genocide—a savage indictment of UN inaction, with appropriate focus on Kofi Annan and Sir Kieran Prendergast (Under-secretary for Political Affiars).
  
  
• “DARFUR: Assault on Survival” (Physicians for Human Rights), January 11, 2006
  Our most powerful and authoritative picture of genocide in Darfur
  
  
• “Entrenching Impunity: Government Responsibility for International Crimes in Darfur”
  This Human Rights Watch report from December 2005 is the most important of early assessments of the Khartoum regime’s role in ethnically-targeted human destruction in Darfur. With clarity and rigor, it establishes beyond question the responsibility of t
  
  
• “Divided They Fall: The Fragmentation of Darfur’s Rebel Groups”
  An unrivaled and superbly intelligent account of the rebel movements in Darfur, their origins, and their fragmentation. Indispensible reading for any understanding of the obstacles to a post-Abuja peace process. By Victor Tanner and Jerome Tubiana.
  
  
• “Doing the right thing for Darfur: ICC indictment of Sudan’s president serves peace”
  This op/ed from The Los Angeles Times speaks more authoritatively for Darfuris than anything else published to date. It is based on extensive interviews with Darfuri refugees, who were asked explicitly by a Human Rights Watch investigator about their vie
  
  
• Satellite Sentinal Project
  This is a highly significant effort that will provide satellite surveillance of the tense border regions and potential flashpoints between the armed forces of Khartoum and the soon-to-be new nation of South Sudan. Peace will certainly not come on the refe
  
  
• “Familiar Voices,” directed by Danny Mendoza
  This documentary has a remarkable series of interviews from the past few years, capturing the thoughts of people such as Romeo Dallaire, Elie Wiesel, Darfuris, and activists from various backgrounds. Highly informative, with much useful material incorpor
  
  
• “Evidence of Intentional Destruction of Livelihoods in Darfur”
  In Darfur, a Physicians for Human Rights investigating team finds substantial evidence of the intentional destruction of livelihoods; includes a powerful photographic record
  
  
• “Refusing to Save Darfur,” by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine Fall 2008
  Anatomy of the international failure to take seriously the responsibility to protect Darfuri civilians, from the perspective of August 2008