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War in Darfur Analysis: Assignment 1

Assessment of the Darfur conflict and its humanitarian impact.

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    WAR IN DARFUR 1 War in Darfur Analysis : Assignment 1 Joseph Brown Dr. Timothy Smith PAD - 540 January 29 , 2014 How have the political decisions made by Sudanese President Omar al - Bashir and international interventions, particularly by the United States and the United Nations, impacted the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in Darfur? In your response, analyze the root causes of the conflict, the major humanitarian consequences, and the roles of various international actors involved. (Word count: 1200 - 1500 words)

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    WAR IN DARFUR 2 Part I: War in Darfur Introduction Sudan is Africa’s largest country, roughly the size of Western Europe. It is geo - strategically significant, especially to an imperial US . T hanks to its location , it is the backdoor to the Middle East. Thanks to its size, it has the potential to be a dominant power in the African continent, and thanks to its oil, it has what advanced capitalist economies crave the most. Darfur, roughly the size of France, is the westernmost province of Sudan. “ It was long a place of Sudanic states, with Daju and Tunjur kingdoms preceding that of Darfur (founded circa 1630), where a small sultanate of Masalit emerged in the west in the 19th century ” (Reyna 2010) . According to the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia , i n 1989, a military coup brought Omar al - Bashir and some fellow officers to power in alliance with the Islamist movement, the National Islamic Front (NIF) led by Hassan al Turabi. The new regime immediately posed problems in Darfur, especially for non - Arab peoples. It divided Darfur in 1994 into three smaller states; North, West and South Darfur. In doing so it made certain that, ‘b oundaries were gerrymandered to make the Fur a minority in each of the states’, thereby diminishing Fur power. A year later the central government appointed eight Arab emirs in West Darfur. This directly threatened Masalit authority in their West Darfurian heartland. Darfur was swiftly becoming a ‘dar al - harba’ (Sudanese Arabic, ‘land of war’). During the decade between 1989 and 1999 what had begun as small localized quarrels became a larger regional conflict in which the Khartoum regime increasingly sought to intervene to augment its own authority. “ Khartoum’s manipulation of land tenure problems on the side of Arabs provoked two wars, an Arab – Fur (1987 – 89) and an Arab – Masalit (1995 – 99) war ” (Reyna 2010) . Arabs began to form militias as early as the middle 1980s and, during the Arab – Masalit

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