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In response to the ongoing mass murder of Black Sudanese groups in Darfur, the US government sent the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team to various points along the Chad/Sudan in order to interview refugees from Darfur. This book comprises essays from contributors who were directly involved, and also those who weren’t, in designing the project, critiquing aspects of the documentation project as well as its significance.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #693475 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From the Back Cover

In response to the ongoing mass murder of Black Sudanese groups in the Darfur region of Sudan by Sudanese government troops and Arab militias, the US government sent the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team to various points along the Chad/Sudan in order to interview refugees from Darfur. Based on their investigation, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell formally announced that "genocide has occurred in Darfur and may still be occurring." The United States officially accused the government of Sudan of perpetrating genocide -- the first time that any government has officially and publicly accused another government of genocide. As a result the United States played a key role in pressuring the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution calling for several measures, including an official UN Commission of Inquiry to conduct a genocide investigation in Sudan itself. This was the first time that any signatory of the Genocide Convention actually triggered provisions of the Convention requiring a UN Security Council response while a genocide was occurring.

This book is comprised of essays from contributors who were involved in designing the project and hiring and training investigators, interpreters, and support personnel; US government and nongovernmental organization (NGO) officials involved in the genesis of the project as well as the analysis of the data; and numerous scholars, not all of whom were directly involved with the project, who will critique aspects of the documentation project as well as its significance.

About the Author

Samuel Totten, a genocide scholar, teaches at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is a member of the Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide (Jerusalem, Israel), and an Associate of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Genocide (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia). From 2000 to the present he has served as the book review editor of the Journal of Genocide Research. He is the co-editor of our successful textbook, Century of Genocide. In addition, Totten was one of the principal investigators of the Darfur Atrocities Documentations Project which investigated, on behalf of the U.S. State Dept., the killings occurring in the Sudan.

Eric Markusen (MSW, University of Washington; Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is Professor of Sociology and Social Work at Southwest Minnesota State University and a Senior Researcher with the Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies of the Danish Institute for International Studies.