Alex de Waal - Publications
Books
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace Global Equity Initiative, August 2007.
AIDS and Power: Why there is No Political Crisis Yet. African Arguments, Zed Books, August 2006.
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War. With Julie Flint. African Arguments, Zed Books, March 2006.
Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan. Revised Edition, Oxford Studies in African Affairs, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Islam and its Enemies in the Horn of Africa. Editor, contributors include Roland Marchal, A. H. Abdel Salam, M. A. Mohamed Salih, and Alex de Waal. Indiana University Press, 2005.
Demilitarizing the mind : African agendas for peace and security. Editor. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2002.
Young Africa: realising the rights of children and youth. With Nicolas Argenti, eds. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002.
When Peace Comes: Civil Society and Development in Sudan. With Yoanes Ajawin, eds. Justice Africa Committee for the Civil Project in Sudan. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2002.
The Phoenix State: Civil Society and the Future of Sudan. With A.H. Abdel Salam, eds. Based on the Conference on Human Rights in Transition in Sudan, held in Kampala, Uganda, between 8-12 Feb. 1999. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2001.
Who Fights? Who Cares? War and Humanitarian Action in Africa. Editor. Justice Africa & InterAfrica Group. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000.
Other Works
"Can Sudan escape its intractability?" With J. Stephen Morrison in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, editors. Grasping the Nettle : Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2005.
"AIDS-related famine in Africa: questioning assumptions and developing frameworks" In Nanu K. Poku and Alan Whiteside [editors] The Political Economy of AIDS in Africa. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
"Prospects for peace and security in the Horn of Africa." Chapter 1 in Gunnar M. Sorbo and Siegfried Pausewang [editors] Prospects for Peace, Security and Human Rights in Africa's Horn. Fagbokforlaget, 2004.
"HIV/AIDS: The Security Issue of a Lifetime" In Lincoln Chen, Jennifer Leaning and Vasant Narasimhan [editors] Global Health Challenges for Human Security. Global Equity Initiative, Asia Center, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2003.
"A disaster with no name: the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the limits of governance" In George Ellison, Melissa Parker and Catherine Campbell [editors] Learning from HIV and AIDS. Biosocial Society Symposium Series, Cambridge University Press. 2003.
"Human Rights, Institutional Wrongs" In Dennis Dijkzeul and Yves Beigbeder [editors] Rethinking International Organizations: Pathology & Promise. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.
"The African State and Global Governance" In Phoebe Griffith [editor] Unbinding Africa: Making Globalisation Work for Good Governance. The Mezzanine, Elizabeth House in London: The Foreign Policy Centre, 2003.
"Genocide in Rwanda" and "Correspondence and Commentary." A debate with Johan Pottier in Jonathan Benthall [editor] The Best of Anthropology Today. London: Routledge, 2002.
"Anthropology and the aid encounter." In Jeremy MacClancy [editor] Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
" 'AIDS-related National Crises' in Africa: Food Security, Governance and Development Partnerships." In Stephen Devereux [editor] The 'New Famines'. IDS bulletin, Volume 33, Number 4, October 2002.
"The Right to be Nuba" In Suleiman Musa Rahhal [editor] The Right to be Nuba: The Story of a Sudanese People's Struggle for Survival. International Nuba Coordination Centre. Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 2001.
"Contemporary Islamic Humanitarianism in Sudan" In Thomas Salter and Kenneth King [editors] Africa, Islam and Development: Islam and Development in Africa - African Islam, African Development. Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2000. (Purchase required.)
"Wars in Africa" In Mary Kaldor [editor] Global Insecurity. London: Pinter, 2000.
Journal Articles
"Child survival during the 2002-2003 drought in Ethiopia" With A. Seyoum Taffesse and L. Carruth. Global Public Health, 1(2): 125-132. June 2006.
"Towards a Comparative Political Ethnography of Disaster Prevention." Journal of International Affairs, 59(2): 129-149. Spring/Summer 2006.
"War and HIV Prevalence: Evidence from Tigray, Ethiopia." With Taddesse Berhe and Hagos Gemechu. African Security Review, 14(3). 2005.
"Who are the Darfurians? Arab and African Identities, Violence and External Engagement. African Affairs, 104(415):181-205. 2005.
"Chasing Ghosts: Alex de Waal on the rise and fall of militant Islam in the Horn of Africa." London Review of Books, 27(16). August 18, 2005.
"Review of Gerard Prunier, Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Hurst and Co." The Times Literary Supplement. August 8, 2005.
"Deep Down in Darfur: Nothing is as we are told in Darfur's killing fields." The Times Literary Supplement. August 12, 2005.
"Sudan's Chance." Prospect Magazine, 113. August 2005.
"Aid Dumping: The use of western food surpluses to provide aid is soon to end. Two cheers." With Edward Clay. Prospect Magazine, 112. July 2005.
"Tragedy in Darfur: On Understanding and Ending the Horror in Darfur." Boston Review. October/November 2004.
"Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap." London Review of Books, 26(15). August 5, 2004.
"Human Rights Organizations and the Political Imagination: How the West and Africa have Diverged" Journal of Human Rights, 2(4). December 2003.
"How Will HIV/AIDS Transform African Governance?" African Affairs, 102(406): 1-23. January 2003.
"Class and Power in a Stateless Somalia" Justice Africa Occasional Paper Series. October 2002.
"US War Crimes in Somalia." New Left Review, 230. July-August 1998.
"Exploiting Slavery: Human Rights and Political Agendas in Sudan." New Left Review, 227. January-February 1998.
Online Publications
"Darfur's Fragile Peace." July 5, 2006. openDemocracy.net.
"Explaining the Darfur Peace Agreement" June 2006. sudaneseonline.com.
"HIV/Aids: What Policy for Life?" January 12, 2006. openDemocracy.net.
"An Imperfect Storm: Narratives of Calamity in a Liberal-Technocratic Age." September 12, 2005. ssrc.org.
Seminars and Lectures
"Darfur: How can the World Stop the Horror?" A JFK Jr. Forum Event featuring panelists Alex de Waal, Haile Menkerios, Samantha Power, and John Prendergast. April 2005.
Transcript of Seminar Eight with Alex de Waal. Bard College. March 11, 2000.