Sudan Research, Analysis, and Advocacy
Eric Reeves
This site links to electronically published analytic briefs and advocacy writings on Sudan by Eric Reeves. These have been organized chronologically, and include all electronic publications since the signing of the historic Machakos Protocol (July 2002). There are separate links for publications in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. There is also a separate link for analyses published from July 2002 to December 2003 and another for yet earlier pieces, primarily related to oil development in southern Sudan and pre-July 2002 stages of the peace process involving the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).
There are also links to a number of Reeves' formal publications in newspapers, news magazines, academic journals, and human rights publications, as well as the texts of his Congressional testimony. Finally, a complete list of publications, testimony, and academic presentations is also linked, as is a grouping of profiles of his work.
(Click on Archive for all links; click here for full list of publications, Congressional testimony, academic presentations, broadcast interviews.)
Eric Reeves is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past thirteen years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history. His book about Darfur (A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide) was published in May 2007. (Read critical praise for A Long Day's Dying.)
He is also at work on a longer-range project surveying the international response to ongoing war and human destruction over the past 25 years ("Sudan – Suffering a Long Way Off"). The project will survey not only the history of Darfur, and the world's failure to halt the first genocide of the 21st century, but the substitution — for over two decades — of humanitarian aid for diplomatic resolve to end conflict in South Sudan and the transitional areas along the North/South border.
The contents of this website, as well as other electronic files and hard copy—including a range of Sudan–related publications, written materials, photographs, and maps—are presently being archived in the human rights division of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs, Connecticut.
from The Washington Post, “Passive in the face of Sudan’s atrocities,” February 10, 2012
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Friday, February 10, 2012 - 03:32 AMSelected Formal Publications
from The Washington Post,” Passive in the face of Sudan’s atrocities,” February 10, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/washingtons-passive-response-to-sudans-atrocities/2012/01/31/gIQA4qhW2Q_story.html
By Eric Reeves
“Civil War in Sudan: A Cataclysm of Destruction Approaches,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), February 7, 2012
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 05:22 PMSelected Blog Entries
“Civil War in Sudan: A Cataclysm of Destruction Approaches”
Dissent Magazine (on-line), February 7, 2012 (unedited text)
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=671
by Eric Reeves
“Sudan Oil Crisis: Extortion and misappropriation are not ‘negotiations’”
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Monday, January 30, 2012 - 05:39 AMBriefs & Advocacy: Post-Machakos ’12
“Sudan Oil Crisis: Extortion and misappropriation are not ‘negotiations,’” Sudan Tribune, January 30, 2012
Eric Reeves
January 29, 2012
“Evil and Ignorance: The Case of Darfur,” Dissent Magazine, January 26, 2012
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 08:53 PMSelected Formal Publications
“Evil and Ignorance: The Case of Darfur,” Dissent Magazine, January 26, 2012
Eric Reeves, January 26, 2012
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=577
“Sudan, South Sudan, and the Oil Revenues Controversy: Khartoum’s Obstructionism Threatens War”
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 02:48 AMBriefs & Advocacy: Post-Machakos ’12
“Sudan, South Sudan, and the Oil Revenues Controversy: Khartoum’s Obstructionism Threatens War”
Eric Reeves
January 24, 2012
“‘They Bombed Everything that Moved’: Aerial military attacks on civilians and humanitarians in Sudan, 1999 – 2012″ (Update, January 12, 2012)
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Friday, January 13, 2012 - 08:59 PMBriefs & Advocacy: Post-Machakos ’12
A Timeline for Catastrophe: Sudan’s Continuing Slide Toward War
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Friday, December 30, 2011 - 08:43 PMBriefs & Advocacy: Post-Machakos '11
A Timeline for Catastrophe: Sudan’s Continuing Slide Toward War
Historical memory is often short when Sudan is the subject, and the events of even the past year often become blurred or inadequately related to one another. This is especially dangerous because of the likely form that renewed war in Sudan will take. As Baptiste Gallopin argued at the end of August—and thus prior to Khartoum’s military offensive in Blue Nile (“Sudan: Slippery Slope”)—war will not come in the form of “an abrupt descent into full-fledged violence, but rather through a graduated series of unilateral measures that set the stage for a de facto international conflict.” The timeline offered here represents an attempt to provide a sequential account of the events, developments, and statements that have brought greater Sudan relentlessly closer to renewed war over the past year. It necessarily focuses on the “unilateralism” that has emanated from Khartoum, and taken the form of brutal aggression against the people of Abyei, South Kordofan, Blue Nile, and increasingly South Sudan itself.
Eric Reeves
December 30, 2011
A Timeline for Catastrophe: Sudan’s Continuing Slide Toward War (cont’d)
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Friday, December 30, 2011 - 08:30 PMBriefs & Advocacy: Post-Machakos '11
“On the Obstruction of Humanitarian Aid,” African Studies Review Volume 54, Number 3 (December 2011)
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 05:58 PMSelected Formal Publications
“Humanitarian Obstruction as a Crime Against Humanity:
The Example of Sudan”
Eric Reeves
“Darfur: The Genocide the World Got Tired Of”
Posted by: Eric Reeves on Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 05:11 PMBriefs & Advocacy: Post-Machakos '11
“Darfur: The Genocide the World Got Tired Of”
Amidst precarious humanitarian conditions, human security is increasingly threatened in Darfur—by Khartoum’s military as well as by variously re-cycled militia forces, and in particular by the increasingly savage Abu Tira (Central Reserve Police). The UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is a conspicuous failure, and yet continues to represent the entirety of international efforts in confronting the “responsibility to protect” acutely endangered civilians
Eric Reeves
November 24, 2011



















