Abstract
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace, edited by Alex de Waal, offers an enlightening tour of the contested intellectual terrain encountered by those who have concerned themselves with the fate of Sudan’s westernmost region since the escalation of the conflict there at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The fact that one is contri- buting to a journal dedicated to preventing the radical diminishing of peoples and cul- tures, aka genocide, guides the selection of parts of the volume under review that will receive special attention here. That it is an attempt to understand the failure of nego- tiations between the Sudanese government and the opposing ‘‘movements’’ rather than the entire course of the genocidal conflict makes this work command attention. When a general history of Sudan is written in years to come, this failure may come to be viewed as an especially tragic defining episode in a period of time when the de- struction of the Darfuri people and their culture might have been stopped.
Recommended Citation
Weiss, John H.
(2009)
"Book Review: Alex de Waal, ed., War in Darfur and the Search for Peace,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal:
Vol. 4:
Iss.
3:
Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol4/iss3/7
