<strong>Overview</strong>
1. The NCP-SPLM partnership for the CPA stands at a critical juncture. The NCP sees the 2009 elections as its route to internal and international legitimacy and is hoping that problems with the census and elections can be pinned on others (the SPLM, the Darfurians). Both parties have failed to find a compromise to the [...]

Papers covering key issues and detailing recent workshops held under the Darfuri-Darfuri Dialogue, in addition to a detailed report on agencies currently working in the region, are now available on our Papers and Articles page.

Testimony before the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs
Prospects for Peace in Darfur Today
April 19, 2007
A Statement by Alex de Waal, Program Director Social Science Research Council, Fellow of the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University, and Director, Justice Africa
“Congressman Lantos, members of this Committee,
It is a pleasure to be invited here to [...]

These two papers have been written by Justice Africa Director Alex de Waal for the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science
In its half century of independent statehood, Sudan has only rarely and briefly been at peace. From the eve of independence until 1972, a separatist rebellion in the [...]

Darfur Civil Society Organisation’s Strategic Planning Workshop
Grand Villa Holliday Hotel, 24-26 March 2007, Khartoum-Sudan
Final Communiqué and Recommendations
Facilitated by the Khartoum Centre for Human Rights and Environmental Development (KCHRED) and Justice Africa
Funded by the European Commission and the Government of Belgium
Download the communique text here (PDF file)
Preamble
The Darfur Civil Society Organisation (CSO) representatives from the three [...]

“Military intervention won’t stop the killing. Those who are clamouring for troops to fight their way into Darfur are suffering from a salvation delusion. It’s a simple reality that UN troops can’t stop an ongoing war, and their record at protecting civilians is far from perfect. Moreover, the idea of Bush and Blair acting as [...]

Lecture by Professor Wole Soyinka at the 50th Anniversary of the 1st International Conference of Black Writers & Artists, Paris, September 2006
Was it not here, on this same French soil, in this culture proud nation that sometimes appears to conflate the very notion of civilization with whatever is uniquely French, that a culture warrior once [...]

The Darfur peace deal signed in May 2006 has failed to halt the cycle of violence and suffering, says a member of the African Union’s mediation team. A new settlement will be harder. But for Alex de Waal, there is no alternative to painstaking, constructive engagement.
The African Union mediation team that laboured in Abuja, Nigeria, [...]

Restoring stability is a long-term task of nine parts politics and one part force. We need fair representation and time writes Alex de Waal in The Guardian, Friday September 29, 2006

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Committee on Conscience. Interview with Alex de Waal
www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/details.php?content=2006-09-14