- Title
- The Darfur conflict from the perspective of the rebel justice and equality movement
- Creator
- Heleta, Savo
- Subject
- Peace-building -- Sudan -- Darfur
- Subject
- Genocide -- Sudan -- Darfur
- Subject
- Sudan -- History -- Darfur Conflict, 2003-
- Date Issued
- 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:8222
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/970
- Identifier
- Peace-building -- Sudan -- Darfur
- Identifier
- Genocide -- Sudan -- Darfur
- Identifier
- Sudan -- History -- Darfur Conflict, 2003-
- Description
- In 2003, a conflict broke out in Darfur, Sudan’s western province, between the mainly “African” rebels and the government forces and their proxy “Arab” militias. It is estimated that about 200,000 people have so far died in the conflict from fighting, disease, and starvation. The UN and aid agencies estimate that over two million Darfurians, out of the population of about six million, are living in refugee camps. Even though the majority of all deaths in Darfur have occurred in 2003 and 2004, the conflict is nowhere near the end. Even after more than five years since the Darfur conflict began, there is hardly any comprehensive information about the rebels’ aims, objectives, and plans for the future. We cannot fully understand the conflict and plan peace negotiations between the warring parties if we do not know enough about the rebels. This study has critically explored the aims and perspectives of the Justice and Equality Movement, currently the most powerful Darfur rebel movement. The author has used the first-hand information gathered through interviews with the representatives of the rebel movement and additional data about the conflict and the rebels collected through an extensive literature analysis to portray the movement and its aims, perspectives, and plans for the future. Using the grounded theory approach as the data analysis tool, the author has presented key findings about the Darfur conflict from the perspective of the Justice and Equality Movement that have emerged from the data collected in this study.
- Format
- 169 leaves : maps
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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