Julie Flint, Alex de Waal

Broschiertes Buch

Darfur

Beschreibung

Darfur has become synonymous with genocide and humanitarian crisis. A guide to the conflict, this book provides a short history of the region, and traces the origins, organization and ideology of the infamous Janjawiid and other rebel groups, including the Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement.

Autor

Alex de Waal is a writer and activist on African issues. He is a programme director at the Social Science Research Council, a fellow of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a director of Justice Africa. His books include Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan (1989), Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa (1997), Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa (2004) and Aids and Power: Why There is No Political Crisis - Yet (2006) Julie Flint is a journalist and film-maker. She divides her time between London and the Middle East. She has worked on from Colombia to China and has won several awards. She has been writing about Sudan since 1992, initially as Horn of Africa correspondent for The Guardian and later as a freelance with a special interest in human rights. Her work includes the BBC film Sudan's Secret War (1995) and The Scorched Earth (2000) and Darfur Destroyed (2004).

Produktdetails

• African Arguments
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Revised and Updated Edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781842779507
• ISBN-10: 1842779508
• Artikelnr.: 22983359