FWD New book – Conflict in the Nuba Mountains: From Genocide by Attrition to the Contemporary Crisis in Sudan

(Samuel Totten and Amanda F Grzyb, eds., Conflict in the Nuba Mountains: From Genocide by Attrition to the Contemporary Crisis in Sudan [New York & London: Routledge, 2014, 314pp, US$125.29/£92.58, hb; US$41.84/£22.52, pb])

DESCRIPTION

This is the first book to focus on the two different but very similar campaigns of state-sponsored violence that have engulfed the people of the Nuba Mountains in Sudan. First, between late 1989 and the mid 1990s, the Government of Sudan, under President Omar al Bashir, carried out what some have deemed genocide by attrition against the people of the Nuba Mountains. The second crisis in the Nuba Mountains has been unfolding since July 2011 as the result of continued strife after the civil war in Sudan and the secession of South Sudan.

Conflict in the Nuba Mountains: From Genocide by Attrition to the Contemporary Crisis in Sudan examines the two crises in detail and provides a comparative analysis of the conditions and government tactics in both cases. Contributing authors address the issue of impunity, the relation to subsequent genocidal actions in Darfur, and renewed violence in the Nuba Mountains today. Contributors also examine the issues of humanitarian aid, the relatively new mandate of Responsibility to Protect, and the various factors influencing international attention to the current Nuba Mountains crisis.

This much-needed volume brings attention to two under-researched conflicts and raises questions of what it means when a government is allowed complete impunity in attacking its own peoples. This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the prevention and intervention of genocide and ethnic conflict.

AUTHORS

Samuel Totten is a scholar of genocide studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is the author and editor of multiple books about genocide, including Genocide by Attrition:The Nuba Mountains, Sudan and Centuries of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

Amanda F Grzyb is associate professor of information and media studies at Western University (Canada) where her teaching and research focus on Holocaust and genocide studies, social movements, and media and the public interest

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