[Peace-discuss] Mamdani on Darfur

[Alfred Kagan]

Some of you may have heard Mahmood Mamdani on Democracy Now! today.  
Amy Goodman mentioned his article in the London Review of Books.  It is 
in the 8 March issue, pages 5-8.  We have it in the University's 
English Library, 3rd floor of the main library. If you didn't see/hear 
the show, I recommend listening online.

I would categorize his article as an elegant argument for a diplomatic 
solution in solidarity with the African Union and factions within all 
the groups on the ground.  He says it is a civil war, very much like 
what is going on now in Iraq.  He is highly critical of journalists who 
can' see the context, and especially critical of the Save Darfur 
coalition for calling for "humanitarian intervention," meaning military 
intervention which can only make things worse in the rest of Sudan and 
in the region.



Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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