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Books : Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror |
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 85104043
EAN: 9780307377234
ISBN: 0307377237
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: March 17, 2009
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Sales Rank: 159382
Studio: Pantheon
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From the author of the highly praised Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, the first analysis of the crisis in Darfur that considers the events of the last few years within the broad context of the history of Sudan, as well as examines the efficacy of the world’s response to the crisis.
Illuminating the deeply rooted causes of the current conflict, Mahmood Mamdani explains how it began as a civil war (1987-89) triggered by a severe drought, its effects shaped by the way British colonial officials had tribalized Darfur, dividing its population between “native” and “settler” tribes, thereby creating homelands for the former at the expense of the latter; how the war was reignited in the 1990s when the government tried to address this problem, unsuccessfully, by creating homelands for dispossessed tribes; how the involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two rebel movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific counterinsurgency but not genocide, as the West has declared. Mamdani explains, too, how the Cold War exacerbated the forty-year civil war in Chad, powerfully impacting upon neighboring Darfur. By 2003, the conflict involved national, regional, and global forces, including the powerful Western lobby calling for military involvement dressed up as “humanitarian intervention.”
Incisive and authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur.
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