Progress Report 3

Jacques Poirier
            
             I have gathered information from a few articles which I found to be very unique. One of which I used for a project last year in my I-100 class during a Darfur discussion in my lecture hall. MY focus for my part in the action campaign group, is to find and put together history of the Darfur crisis so that we can connect the past to modern situations and applicably fix the regions cultural, social, and violent issues. This first article that I have posted is called, "Timeline, Darfur Crisis." IT gives a very general "points to facts" view of the Darfur crisis. IT gives a summary between 2003- 2010 of the culturally dividing issues tearing Northern and Southern Sudan apart. Everything from major rebel attacks to Janjaweed skirmishes are listed. In the second source I have listed, it is a book called "A Short History of  a Long War." I read this book several years ago, and just recently re-read it to refresh my memory. It was published in 2006, so it is not completely up to date, but gives valid points on not only the political and cultural biases for each sides motivation for fighting the war and involving themselves with genocide, but also a personal perspective from a soldier working under the government of Sudan and a Journalist who go side by side documenting everything they see. It is from a ground level up perspective of the real situation from two individuals directly in the cross fire of the genocide. The third article was called, "A New History of a Long War." It sections out different categories of the crisis into the Political structure, the cultural structure and the 30 year struggle over control for the now split nation into two separate states of Northern and Southern Sudan.