Violence has plagued the westernmost region of Sudan, known as Darfur, since 2003. The conflict contains elements of political and ethnic divisiveness, desertification, and resource scarcity. The violence there continues to date. Many have declared genocide in Darfur while other…
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This dissertation focuses on investigating the causes of malnutrition in the crisis-affected region of Darfur, Sudan, on exploring the relationship between household headship and food security and on examining the role of care in determining malnutrition in emergencies. For the …
This dissertation presents and evaluates the use of geographic techniques for understanding the role of environmental variables as they relate to the odds of settlements being targeted for attack within a civil conflict. Geospatial technologies are demonstrated for their utility…
The media acts as a gatekeeper and decides what material to cover and what not to cover. In order to better understand why one disaster receives media coverage and another crisis is virtually unnoticed by the media, the motives behind covering one story over another is analyzed …
This research makes use of a Constructivist approach to norm development, in particular the concept of the norm life cycle, to assess the emergence and development of the responsibility to protect as a norm in international society in relation to the conduct of interventions on …
Despite arguments that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should refrain from taking criminal action against President Al-Bashir of Sudan for his connection to the conflict in Darfur, I argue that the court should attempt to prosecute President al-Bashir or else risk being s…
The question of how immigrant groups become political and how the politics of developing countries are brought to life on the streets of Western cities is now critical. With the onset of major international crises, the influx of foreign nationals and the existence of multiple fo…
After the Nazi Holocaust, the international community vowed to prevent genocide from occurring in the future. Yet, genocide has continued to occur. Accordingly, this study seeks to better understand why and how genocide takes place. I ask two key questions: 1) What are the cause…
This thesis aims to examine and critique the United States' historical response to genocide. Beginning with the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide in 1948, the author will highlight the lives of Raphael Lemkin and Senator William…
International intervention, most visibly represented by the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), has failed to resolve the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. Respected scholars have claimed that the "subordination of peacemaking to peacekeeping"…
How and when do non-state actors matter? To date, the growing political salience of non-state actors has been acknowledged but not assessed. In this dissertation, I argue that non-state actors can impact international processes to the extent that they are able to leverage other …
Since the end of the Cold War, millions have been killed in a series of genocides. The dismantlement of the Soviet Union left the United States with new decisions to make regarding human rights violations. The United States government no longer had hard interests to intervene in…
This thesis is concerned with the social organization of the Zaghawa Muslim community in the Northern Darfur province of the Republic of the Sudan. The Zaghawa are internally divided into two distinct groups beri and mai. The former constitute the majority of the Zaghawa society…