The genocide in Darfur is old enough that books are starting to be published about it. The best one that I’ve seen so far is “Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan,” (2006) edited by Samuel Totten and Eric Markusen. By far the largest and most scholarly volume published on the subject to date, the contributors are a who’s who of big names in the genocide prevention community. Even the COC’s own Jerry Fowler lends a chapter.
Totten and Markusen include a bit of historical information on Sudan and the crisis in Darfur, but they committed most of the book to the history and process of the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team that interviewed refugees in Chad and whose information gathered led Colin Powell to make the historic accusation of genocide against Sudan in September 2004.
A lot of space is given to analyzing why the United Nations and other groups have not made similar findings, as well as what the significance of the US findings are. This book is absolutely required reading for anyone who wants to understand the genocide in Darfur, how it was discovered, the world’s reaction to it, and its implications for future genocides.
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That book is SO GREAT. I used it in 2 out of my 4 final papers this year. Jerry Fowler's discussion of Genocide and International Law is particularly insightful.
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