Darfur Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide

by Alexis Herr

Overview

This important reference work offers students a comprehensive overview of the Darfur Genocide, with roughly 100 in-depth articles by leading scholars on an array of topics and themes and more than a dozen key primary source documents.

Stretching beyond Darfur to situate Sudan within the scope of its African, colonial, human rights, and genocidal history, this reference work explores every aspect of the Darfur Genocide. Covering hundreds of years, this book explores the religious, ethnic, and cultural roots of Sudanese identity-making and how it influenced the shape of the genocide that erupted in 2004.

As the first reference guide on the Darfur Genocide, this text will enable readers to explore an array of critical topics related to the atrocities in Sudan. The book opens with seven key essays collectively providing an overview of the genocide, its causes and consequences, international reaction, and profiles on the main perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. These are followed by entries on such crucial topics as the African Union, child soldiers, the Janjaweed, and the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan. Leading scholars offer perspective essays on the primary cause of the Darfur Genocide and on whether the conflict in Darfur is a just case for intervention. Expertly curated primary documents enrich readers' ability to understand the complexity of the genocide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440865503
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/06/2020
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Alexis Herr, PhD, is editor of Rwandan Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide and author of The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli di Carpi, 1942–1952.

Table of Contents

List of Entries,
List of Primary Documents,
Preface,
Introduction,
Overview, xviiCauses, xxConsequences, xxiiPerpetrators, xxivVictims, xxviiBystanders, xxixInternational Reaction, xxxiA–Z Entries,
Primary Documents,
Perspective Essays,
What Was the Primary Cause of the Darfur Genocide?,
Is the Conflict in Darfur an Example of a Just Case for Intervention?,
Chronology,
Abbreviations,
Bibliography,
List of Contributors,
Index,

Editorial Reviews

Recommended. General readers through faculty.” —Choice

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