The world and Darfur
Subtitle: international response to crimes against humanity in western Sudan
By: edited by Amanda F. Grzyb
Series: Arts insights : challenging ideas for the future -- 5; Arts insights -- 5.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780773535350
Subjects: Crimes against humanity; Peacekeeping forces; International cooperation; Conflict management; Prévention; Coopération internationale; Civilian relief; Secours aux civils; Genocide; Droit d'ingérence humanitaire; Crimes contre l'humanité; Prevention; Mass media and the conflict; Forces de maintien de la paix; Humanitarian intervention; United Nations; Médias et conflit; History; Histoire; Génocide; Nations Unies; Gestion des conflits
Description: The crisis in Darfur has led to systemic and widespread murder, rape, and abduction, and forced displacement of millions of civilians. This book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an understanding of the international response to the crisis in Western Sudan. The authors look at lessons learned from United Nations failure to intervene during Rwandan genocide, the representation of Darfur in mainstream media, atrocity investigations, activist and NGO campaigns, art exhibitions and political rhetoric, and role of international community in genocide prevention and intervention. A common theme is the succession of political, bureaucratic, and informational barriers that prevented international community from staging effective action--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) Roméo Dallaire; title: Introduction : the international response to Darfur / Amanda F. Grzyb; title: Pt. 1. From Rwanda to Darfur. What Darfur teaches us about the lessons learned from Rwanda / Gerald Caplan; title: Lessons learned or not learned from the Rwandan genocide / Brent Beardsley; title: Media coverage, activism, and creating public will for intervention in Rwanda and Darfur / Amanda F. Grzyb; title: Pt. 2. The crisis in Darfur. Three empirical investigations of alleged genocide in Darfur / Eric Markusen; title: Mass-atrocity crimes in Darfur and the response of Government of Sudan media to international pressure / Frank Chalk and Danielle Kelton; title: Death in Darfur : total mortality from violence, malnutrition, and disease : April/May 2006 / Eric Reeves; title: Pt. 3. Representation and response. Saving lives in Darfur, 2003-06? : lots of talk, little to no action / Samuel Totten; title: Visual advocates : depicting Darfur / Carla Rose Shapiro; title: Rhetoric, rights, and the boundaries of recognition : making Darfur public / Daniel Listoe; title: Preventing genocide and crimes against humanity : one innovation and new global initiative / H. Peter Langille.