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This paper presents the ethnic and ideological factors in the Sudan crisis as products of other processes, notably the strategies adopted by successive governments for managing the peripheries and the militarisation of society. It differs from many scholarly analyses in its emphasis on the importance of failed consolidation at the centre of power. The implication of the analysis is that Sudan faces possibly insuperable challenges in attempting to achieve democracy and a fair distribution of…

This paper (2007) examines the future of food security in Sudan by reviewing, and extrapolating from, recent patterns of trade and conflict. The paper considers important (and ostensibly encouraging) economic data and analyses some of the underlying political and economic processes driving food insecurity in Sudan. Link to publication

This briefing explores the roots of Sudan’s national identity crisis and addresses its stratifying implications. Download

The purpose of this article is to highlight the critical role of ethnic, cultural and religious diversity in peacebuilding and constitution-making in post-conflict Sudan. Link to publication

This article (2007) argues that any intervention is necessarily a political event and it supports this contention with an examination of assistance in Sudan in general and Darfur in particular. In describing the way in which donating states concentrated on the settlement between Khartoum and South Sudan to the detriment of intervention in Darfur in time to forestall massive human slaughter, the authors are pointing to political failure. Link to publication

This article (2007) reviews the implementation of the CPA and the contextual factors that influenced the implementation. Download

This report (2006) reviews the first six months of the National Unity Government that resulted from the CPA. It concludes the National Unity government has not yet provided the anticipated power sharing mechanisms and reform of legislation. Visit here.

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