Darfur
Subtitle: the ambiguous genocide
By: Gérard Prunier
Edition: Rev. and updated ed
Series: Crises in world politics
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780801446023
Subjects: Genocide -- Sudan -- Darfur; Darfur (Sudan) -- History
Other titles: Ambiguous genocide
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index
Table of contents: title: 1.  Independent Darfur : land, people, history; title: The economy and the lie of the land; title: Population : a complex ethnic mosaic; title: The independent Darfur Sultanate; title: Umm Kwakiyya, the time of the bandits; title: Ali Dinar and Darfur's last independent years (1898-1916); title: 2. Darfur and Khartoum (1916-1985) : an unhappy relationship; title: Colonial benign neglect : romanticism and underdevelopment; title: On the margins of history : Darfur and Sudanese nationalism; title: Reaching for the centre : the frustrations of democratic politics in Darfur; title: The Chadian-Libyan factor : a fundamental element of destabilization; title: From maladministration to famine : the 1984 catastrophe; title: 3. From marginalization to revolt : manipulated "Arabism" and "racial" anarchy (1985-2003); title: Consequences of the 1984 famine; title: Khartoum's "democratic" politics an the Chadian conflict; title: Libya's "victory" in Chad, a new Darfur famine and the Daud Bolad insurrection; title: Centre versus periphery : Darfur in a global Sudanese perspective; title: 4. Fear at the centre : from counter-insurgency to quasi-genocide (2003-2005); title: Centre versus centre : the Islamists' internal quarrels and their spillover into Darfur; title: Naivasha and the "feel good factor"; title: Khartoum wakes up to the danger; title: "Counter-insurgency on the cheap"; title: Improvising a "final solution"; title: Foreign intervention and death by attrition; title: 5. The world and the Darfur crisis; title: Media coverage : surfing on the horror charts; title: Embattled humanitarianism; title: "Shuffling papers while Africans die" : the international community and the Darfur crisis; title: Was there a genocide in Darfur or not?; title: 6. Darfur Agonistes; title: Six months of unfulfilled hopes after the CPA; title: The race between peace and growing anarchy; title: The growing ethnic anarchy; title: The Chadian civil war and its increasing impact; title: A false solution: the Darfur Peace Agreement