Updates on Justice Africa’s work on Darfur, and in Sudan as a whole, are now available from the site www.justiceafricasudan.org

On Wednesday, May 30, the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., hosted a public program, “What to do about Darfur?” featuring two of the leading analysts on the crisis: Alex de Waal of Justice Africa and the Social Science Research Council, and John Prendergast of Enough! “It’s been [...]

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 [...]