Directory of Darfur Conflict Resources

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The ongoing conflict between ethnic groups in Darfur, Sudan. This includes the participation of the government of Sudan and militias known as the Janjaweed.

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• Advocacy Groups

Resources in This Category

• BBC News - Google Earth Turns Spotlight on Darfur

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6543185.stm
  A US holocaust museum and Google Earth team up to show people what is happening in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region.

• Christian Science Monitor - Africans Are Already Facing Climate Change

  http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1106/p04s01-woaf.html
  Scott Baldauf reviews the latest UN report about climate change and how the people of Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Chad are already seeing the repercussions of drought, including war.

• Council on Foreign Relations - Crisis Guide: Darfur

  http://www.cfr.org/sudan/crisis-guide-darfur/p13129
  Interactive look at the crisis in Darfur includes related news stories and materials.

• Enough Project

  http://www.enoughproject.org/
  Project to end genocide and crimes against humanity, currently focused on Sudan and Congo. Includes blog, news reports, events, publications and how to support.

• Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

  http://hhi.harvard.edu/
  Seeks to advance the science, practice, professional development, and role of human rights in humanitarian emergency response worldwide. Includes news, events, programs and research, publications, and how to support their efforts.

• Human Rights Watch - Atrocities in Western Sudan

  https://www.hrw.org/africa/sudan
  Reports documenting the violence against the Fur, Masaalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups.

• Justice and Equality Movement

  http://www.sudanjem.com/
  The official site of the J.E.M. opposition group.

• Logistic Cluster - Sudan

  http://www.logcluster.org/ops/sudan/sudan
  Official site of the UN's JLC inter-agency team in Sudan provides information on the coordination and optimisation of the logistics capabilities of humanitarian organisations involved in large-scale emergencies.

• London Review of Books - The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency

  http://lrb.co.uk/v29/n05/mamd01_.html
  Mahmood Mamdani compares Iraq and Darfur, explaining the roots of the conflicts and the reasons to be wary of Iraq-style interventionism in Darfur.

• National Geographic - Photos, Video Expose Darfur Atrocities in Google Earth

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070425-google-darfur.html
  Images and survivor stories embedded in the virtual globe bring the violence up close and personal, while real-time spin-offs aim to track and perhaps deter armed militias.

• New York Times - A godsend for Darfur, or a curse?

  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/news/22iht-22polgreen.6764928.html?_r=1
  If environmental degradation and the symptoms of a warming planet are at the root of the Darfur crisis, perhaps the newly-discovered underground lake, the size of Lake Erie, will solve the conflict.

• Sudanreeves.org

  http://www.sudanreeves.org/
  Analytic briefs and advocacy writings on the alleged genocide in Sudan by Eric Reeves, a Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

• The Guardian - Darfur

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/darfur
  News, features and analysis of the situation in Darfur including groups involved and the humanitarian effort. With interactives, diaries, photo galleries and how to help.

• The Guardian - Scorched

  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/apr/28/sudan.climatechange
  As the conflict in Darfur spreads across central Africa, with thousands more displaced and killed, Julian Borger in Chad investigates the origins and contradictions of what is likely to be seen as the first climate change war.

• Time - How to Prevent the Next Darfur

  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1615171,00.html
  The roots of the Africa resource wars lie in climate change.

• Washington Post - A Climate Culprit In Darfur

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857_pf.html
  Ban Ki Moon, secretary general of the United Nations, writes about the Darfur conflict's beginnings as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change.

• Washington Post - Sudan in Crisis

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/sudan/
  Coverage of the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan which claimed as many as 450,000 lives, displaced 2.5 million people and left up to 4 million dependent on outside aid. Includes archives, related special reports, live discussions and additional resources.

• WHO - Health Situation in Darfur, Sudan

  http://www.who.int/features/darfur/en/index.html
  Situation reports and technical guidance from the World Health Organization.

• Wikipedia - War in Darfur

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur
  Hyperlinked encyclopedia article about the violence taking place in Darfur, Sudan since February 2003. Includes extensive bibliography.

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