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 [...]

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 [...]

Why We Need to Rethink How to Realize the “Responsibility to Protect” in Wartime One hundred and forty years ago, the British statesman Sir William V. Harcourt, writing under the pen name Historicus, defined intervention as “a high and summary procedure that can sometimes snatch a remedy beyond the reach of law. As in the [...]

Alex de Waal writes about the Darfur peace negotiations, London Review of Books 30th November 2006. www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n23/waal01_.html

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 [...]