darfur-bibliography resources

My bibliography sources:

http://aidstillrequired.org/darfur

http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/sudan/03_disasters.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImkORp8XCcU

Darfur: Progress Report 3

Maeve Mallozzi-Kelly

Prof. Horowitz

INTL-I 204

10-10-12

Progress Report 3: Personal Research Summary

            My responsibility for the Darfur project is to research why the UN became concerned about Genocide and how they’ve been implementing their legislation on the issue ever since. I may use some specific examples of other cases of genocide and compare them to the one in Darfur so the class will understand why the UN acted differently in different situations. I will use Rwanda, because the class is already familiar with that example, and Cambodia, because I’m assuming not many people know much about this situation. I’ve already looked at a few articles, both academic and popular, about the situations surrounding both of these Genocides, one of which was John Mueller’s article “The Banality of ‘Ethnic War’”. This article is really helpful in understanding the difficulty in defining genocide especially in regards to what happened in Rwanda. Along with this research I have also looked at the “ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” and intend on including key points in the power point and focusing on how the UN either honors them or not and why.  

Progress Report #3

For our project we wanted to focus somewhat on the refugee problem that is now going on in Darfur.  I am doing research on the newly establish Republic of South Sudan, the peace agreements they have entered into and trying to figure out why many refugees feel it is still not safe to return home.  Below are some site I have found to help explain this, sites about the government itself as well as the peace treaties it has entered into.

http://www.gossmission.org/goss/images/cca.pdf

http://www.gossmission.org/goss/images/Documents/interior%20press%20release0001.pdf

http://www.goss.org/

http://unmis.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=515

History of Darfur- two different unique articles

The above link sends you to where you can buy or rent the book, "Darfur, A Short History of a Long War." I have read the book and personally like it. It is short and if your interested in finer points of the history, than take a look. The other link I posted below is for an online book pdf file of, "A New History of Long War."

Darfur Al-Jazeera timeline

An helpful article for summarizing the history of Darfur in a timeline easy to understand.

Darfur Progress Report #3

I have been looking up multiple resources trying to find the most accurate history on Darfur-genocide. I am apart of the history portion of our group project. I believe I have come up with some credible sources such as the United Nations, darfur action campaign groups, and sudan tribune. I have found current information on  what is going on in darfur, as well as, history going back to the first issues that occured in the 1970's. We are going to establish a time line so I have been trying to find key turning points in the issues of Darfur. The one thing I found interesting when reading the articles was that China and Russia were supplying ammunition and weapons to the Sudan government knowing what they were doing with the equipment.


Here are the sources I have found thus far:

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article11445

http://www.savedarfur.org/pages/primer

http://www.the-ethic.org/darfurbackground.htm

http://www.un.org/News/dh/dev/scripts/darfur_formatted.htm

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide-in-sudan.htm

And videos that I have watched which we might incorporate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjkKwQU6ERI 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiz7d1t34Go&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie2jyPEJmss&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPOyl7BLO10&feature=related 

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.

darfur-history

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article11445

http://www.savedarfur.org/pages/primer

http://www.the-ethic.org/darfurbackground.htm

http://www.un.org/News/dh/dev/scripts/darfur_formatted.htm

Progress Report 2

Working Bibliography

Brenzvideos. "The Devil Came On Horseback." YouTube. YouTube, 20 Sept. 2010. Web. 14 Sept. 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPOyl7BLO10.

"Convention on Genocide." Convention on Genocide. The United Nations General Assembly, 16 Aug. 1994. Web. 18 Sept. 2012. http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html.

Mayroz, Eyal. "The Legal Duty to 'Prevent': After the Onset of 'Genocide'" Genocide Research 14.1 (2012): 79-98. OneSearch@IU. Web. 20 Sept. 2012. http://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.indiana.edu/eds/detail?vid=2&hid=109&sid=377ff263-039d-4675-95cc-6f037868c55e%40sessionmgr104&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=71882017.

Mills, Brendon J. "How to End the Genocide in Darfur and Why It Won't Happen." 89.4 (2009): 80-87. OneSearch@IU. Web. 12 Sept.2012. http://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.indiana.edu/eds/detail?sid=041fd5d023e345bbade7b47700bd1e88%40sessionmgr4&vid=1&hid=2&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=43251486.

"The Darfur Activism Group." Darfur Activism Group. Newsvine.com, Spring 2012. Web. 22 Sept. 2012. http://darfur.newsvine.com/.

We have also decided on a more specific way to incorporate a class discussion into our presentation. The history group will split the class up in three major countries: America, China, and Russia (China and Russia still supply Darfur with ammunition and guns to kill people) and then give the groups a background of what their countries think about genocide and how they reacted to it. Then we will tie this into our action campaign and we will try to convenience them to act to help stop violence completely and help improve the quality of life of refugees. We are trying to, see at the end, if they will change their opinions and act against what their countries are doing to the people and Darfur. We also thought about making hand outs of what their countries think so they have something to look at during our presentation.

Darfur question for Dr. Quigley

How did Germany react to the idea of the UDHR? What kind of an international role do they play in supporting it today?

Darfur-Question for Peck

What was it like having to watch the genocide from the US and how did you deal with it? Did you ever get frustrated with the United States reaction to what was happening?

Darfur- Mueller Question

Question for Mueller What specific attributes classify the genocide in Darfur as a political war more so than an ethnic war?

Library Resources

Here are links to some resources we found that are available at the library.

Here is an article called How To End The Genocide In Darfur And Why It Won't Happen.

http://ezproxy.lib.indiana.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=43251486&site=eds-live&scope=site

And here is a list of sources that came up when we searched Darfur AND genocide AND history

http://ezproxy.lib.indiana.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&bquery=Darfur+AND+genocide+AND+history&cli0=FT&clv0=Y&type=0&site=eds-live&scope=site

You can put in your own search just capitalize AND to include more keywords, NOT to exclude articles with that keyword, and OR for keywords that are interchangeable

Hope this helps!

Darfur Presentation Idea

http://prezi.com/ I think someone mentioned using this instead of powerpoint. I haven't tried using it yet but I know we can all add things to it like a google + document. This might be a much easier way to combine all of our info into a presentation. What do you guys think?

Darfur: NGO article

We are going to talk about how NGOs and advocacy networks have been used to combat the problem of genocide in Darfur.

Darfur- Activism

Darfur-History links

Darfur

Finnemore article,

This article made a strong argument for universal human rights. This relates to our group because even if the hate crimes that were being committed in Darfur were not considered genocide they were still a volition of human rights and therefore the UN should have interfered.  

Darfur Progress Report #1

Progress Report #1: Group #2: Jessica Parkman, Maeve Mallozzi-Kelly, Becky Seward, Brooke Johaningmeyer, Jacques Poirier,Colleen Wethern

Darfur/Genocide

Our topic is on Darfur and genocide in general. We plan on developing our action campaign by looking at pre-existing organizations on genocide/Darfur who are actually putting forth effort to help the cause.  Our group will utilize a lot of internet resources such as video clips, electronic databases, other action campaign websites, and other useful websites like “the convention of genocide”.  We established that we are separating our group into two smaller groups. One group will focus on researching and putting together information on the history of Darfur/genocide while the other group will focus on coming up with resolutions to help stop genocide. The history group with include Jessica, Jacques, and Colleen, and the resolution group will include Brooke, Becky, Maeve, and Jennifer.

We will try to answer the following questions: What is the history of Darfur and genocide in general? What are the origins of genocide? How is genocide still effecting people within different areas of the world such as darfur, rwanda, bosnia, etc.? What efforts have been taken to stop genocide thus far? What can we do now to help  stop genocide? 

            During our meeting, we came up with some ideas that will help us develop an effective campaign. We thought about getting the class involved during our presentation by separating them into a few different countries to make them critically think about the issue at hand.  After we have presented them information on how genocide is affecting people to this day. We want to obtain feedback, from the individuals within the different countries, on whether they agree or disagree with their countries views on genocide. Also we had an idea on focusing our action campaign on one issue so we can narrow in on such a broad topic. Finally, the last ideas we established were about how we could get people to take action on genocide. We came up with protesting for  stronger regulations on what the UN considers to be genocide, and we would like people to think about providing funds to private organizations that will go into countries to help stop genocide.  We have yet to determine whether we will use all of these ideas or not. 

Darfur

Fein's article suggested and summarized that in simple terms; The United Nations will not get involved, with countries/ nations and cultural groups that are suppressed physically, emotionally or are victimized with genocide unless funding is available. This funding and collaborative sessions when governments meet together must happen almost instantly or the Declaration of Human Rights will be disregarded and bypassed illegally. Fundraising for private contracting groups is the number one option for helping civilians in these dangerous third world nations.This is why I suggest creating fundraising opportunities generating money for these companies out of our own will.