Justice Africa is now Sudanese!

August 22nd, 2008

Justice Africa in Sudan is now a Sudanese organisation, officially registered as non-governmental organisation with the Sudan Humanitarian Affairs Commission. Justice Africa Sudan will endeavour to act as a focal point for Sudanese civic activism and welcomes all civil society organisations and activists to participate in our agenda for social, economic and democratic progress.
Justice Africa [...]

Prospects for Peace in Sudan: April 2008

April 10th, 2008

<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 [...]

New Darfur papers added

July 10th, 2007

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.

Justice Africa Sudan - new website launched

May 2nd, 2007

Welcome to Justice Africa’s new website, justiceafricasudan.org, detailing the work of our Sudan programme, now based in Khartoum. This site is currently under development, but in the meantime fuller details of our work are available from Justice Africa’s main website where you will also find details of our work in Sudan.

Last Year’s Labels on Darfur No Longer Fit: Alex de Waal Testimony to the US House of Representatives

April 23rd, 2007

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 [...]

Alex de Waal: Sudan Crisis States Papers

April 23rd, 2007

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 Organisations Strategic Planning Worshop; Khartoum 24-27 March 2007

April 11th, 2007

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 [...]

‘I will not sign’

December 10th, 2006

“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 [...]

In Darfur, a political solution must come first

September 20th, 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

Darfur’s fragile peace

July 6th, 2006

The collapse of the Darfur peace agreement designed to resolve the conflict in western Sudan could be averted by a more comprehensive approach to the key issue of disarmament, says Alex de Waal.
The implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) signed on 5 May 2006 is stalling, amid new insecurity across the western Sudanese region. [...]