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Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the War on Terror

"Saviors and Survivors is the first account of the Darfur crisis to consider recent events in the broad context of Sudan's history, and to examine the efficacy of the world's response to the ongoing violence. Illuminating the deeply rooted causes of the current conflict, Mamdani works from its colonial and Cold War origins to the war's intensification from the 1990s to the present day. Examining how it has drawn in national, regional and global forces, Mamdani decontructs the powerful Western lobby's persistent calls for a military response dressed up as humanitarian intervention. Incisive and authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur."--Jacket.

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  • "Darfur, politics, and the War on Terror"@en

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  • "Examines the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan in the context of the country's turbulent history, including the Cold War's effect on neighboring Chad's civil war, and how that violence spilled over in Sudan, exacerbating the already severe problems caused by Sudan's tribal conflicts."
  • "From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world's response to that crisis. In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987'89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into "native" and "settler" tribes and creating homelands for the former at the expense of the latter; how the war intensified in the 1990s when the Sudanese government tried unsuccessfully to address the problem by creating homelands for tribes without any. The involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two rebel movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific counterinsurgency'but not to genocide, as the West has declared. Mamdani also explains how the Cold War exacerbated the twenty-year civil war in neighboring Chad, creating a confrontation between Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi (with Soviet support) and the Reagan administration (allied with France and Israel) that spilled over into Darfur and militarized the fighting. By 2003, the war involved national, regional, and global forces, including the powerful Western lobby, who now saw it as part of the War on Terror and called for a military invasion dressed up as "humanitarian intervention." Incisive and authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur. From the Hardcover edition."
  • ""Saviors and Survivors is the first account of the Darfur crisis to consider recent events in the broad context of Sudan's history, and to examine the efficacy of the world's response to the ongoing violence. Illuminating the deeply rooted causes of the current conflict, Mamdani works from its colonial and Cold War origins to the war's intensification from the 1990s to the present day. Examining how it has drawn in national, regional and global forces, Mamdani decontructs the powerful Western lobby's persistent calls for a military response dressed up as humanitarian intervention. Incisive and authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur."--Jacket."@en

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  • "Dārfūr, munqiḏūn wa-nāǧūn : al-siyāsaẗ wa-al-ḥarb ʻalá al-irhāb"
  • "دارفور منقذون وناجون, السياسة والحرب على الإرهاب"
  • "Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the War on Terror"@en
  • "Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the War on Terror"
  • "Blinde Retter Über Darfur, Geopolitik und den Krieg gegen den Terror"
  • "Saviors and survivors Darfur, politics, and the War on Terror"@en
  • "Saviors and survivors Darfur, politics, and the war on terror"
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  • "Dārfūr, munqidhūn wa-nājūn : al-siyāsah wa-al-ḥarb ʻalá al-irhāb"
  • "Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics and the war on terror"
  • "دارفور، منقذون وناجون : السياسة والحرب على الارهاب"
  • "Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the war on terror"
  • "دارفور، منقذون وناجون : السياسة والحرب على الإرهاب"
  • "Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the War on terror"@en
  • "Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the War on terror"
  • "Saviors and survivors Darfur, politics, and the War on terror"

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