Darfur: the ambiguous genocide

1. Independent Darfur : land, people, history

The economy and the lie of the land

Population : a complex ethnic mosaic

The independent Darfur Sultanate

Umm Kwakiyya, the time of the bandits

Ali Dinar and Darfur's last independent years (1898-1916)

2. Darfur and Khartoum (1916-1985) : an unhappy relationship

Colonial benign neglect : romanticism and underdevelopment

On the margins of history : Darfur and Sudanese nationalism

Reaching for the centre : the frustrations of democratic politics in Darfur

The Chadian-Libyan factor : a fundamental element of destabilization

From maladministration to famine : the 1984 catastrophe

3. From marginalization to revolt : manipulated "Arabism" and "racial" anarchy (1985-2003)

Consequences of the 1984 famine

Khartoum's "democratic" politics an the Chadian conflict

Libya's "victory" in Chad, a new Darfur famine and the Daud Bolad insurrection

Centre versus periphery : Darfur in a global Sudanese perspective

4. Fear at the centre : from counter-insurgency to quasi-genocide (2003-2005)

Centre versus centre : the Islamists' internal quarrels and their spillover into Darfur

Naivasha and the "feel good factor"

Khartoum wakes up to the danger

"Counter-insurgency on the cheap"

Improvising a "final solution"

Foreign intervention and death by attrition

5. The world and the Darfur crisis

Media coverage : surfing on the horror charts

Embattled humanitarianism

"Shuffling papers while Africans die" : the international community and the Darfur crisis

Was there a genocide in Darfur or not?

6. Darfur Agonistes

Six months of unfulfilled hopes after the CPA

The race between peace and growing anarchy

The growing ethnic anarchy

The Chadian civil war and its increasing impact

A false solution: the Darfur Peace Agreement.

Independent Darfur: land, people, history

The economy and the lie of the land

Population: a complex ethnic mosaic

The independent Darfur Sultanate

Umm Kwakiyya, the time of the bandits

Ali Dinar and Darfur's last independent years (1898-1916)

Darfur and Khartoum (1916-1985) : an unhappy relationship

Colonial benign neglect: romanticism and underdevelopment

On the margins of history: Darfur and Sudanese nationalism

Reaching for the centre: the frustrations of democratic politics in Darfur

The Chadian-Libyan factor: a fundamental element of destabilization

From maladministration to famine: the 1984 catastrophe

From marginalization to revolt: manipulated "Arabism" and "racial" anarchy (1985-2003)

Consequences of the 1984 famine

Khartoum's "democratic" politics an the Chadian conflict

Libya's "victory" in Chad, a new Darfur famine and the Daud Bolad insurrection

Centre versus periphery: Darfur in a global Sudanese perspective

Fear at the centre: from counter-insurgency to quasi-genocide (2003-2005)

Centre versus centre: the Islamists' internal quarrels and their spillover into Darfur

Naivasha and the "feel good factor"

Khartoum wakes up to the danger

"Counter-insurgency on the cheap"

Improvising a "final solution"

Foreign intervention and death by attrition

The world and the Darfur crisis

Media coverage: surfing on the horror charts

Embattled humanitarianism

"Shuffling papers while Africans die" : the international community and the Darfur crisis

Was there a genocide in Darfur or not?

Conclusion: Darfur and the global Sudan crisis.