Debating Darfur in the World

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5741326
AutoresRogaia Mustafa Abusharaf (Georgetown University, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume632
Fascículo1
Páginas67-85
Data de publicação2010-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002716210378631
OpenAlexW2155346704
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas22

This article compares the debates and demonstrations about Darfur that have taken place in the Sudan, the United States, and Qatar and illuminates how political violence is apprehended and cultural identities are constructed. The rallies that occurred among Sudanese inside and outside the Sudan following the 2009 indictment of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) are particularly revealing. Examining what has been represented worldwide as the first genocide of the twenty-first century brings to light the ideologies that are expressed in impassioned political positions. Ideology, which implicitly undergirds the mixed emotions with which the ICC warrant was received, has been fundamental to the Darfur story from the start of the crisis in 2003. Describing Darfur in three distinct sociopolitical arenas, one sees various scenarios that are akin to a play with multiple actors and scenes, each of which is contextually mediated and expertly produced. The disconnections, ruptures, and shifts in the flow of this narration point to the disparities in the situational, local, regional, and transnational forces at work

Criminal court · Genocide · Ideology · Indictment · International law · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Philosophy