Annex 1
NOTES ON THE AUTHORS
Suliman Baldo
Serving as Africa Program director as the International
Crisis Group, Suliman Baldo is experienced in human rights monitoring,
conflict analysis, and international advocacy. Since 2002, he
has worked as an independent expert, providing advice on conflict
situations in Central and Eastern Africa. From 1995 to 2002, he
was with Human Rights Watch as Senior Researcher for the DR Congo
and the Horn of Africa.
His work also includes community-based development
and management of humanitarian/emergency assistance. From 1982
to 1995, he served as development consultant in his native Sudan,
and from 1988 to 1992, as field representative to Oxfam America,
managing its development and disaster relief programmes for the
Horn of Africa region through grants to community and intermediary
NGOs
Suliman Baldo holds a PhD in comparative literature
from the University of Dijon in France and obtained undergraduate
degrees from the University of Khartoum.
James Morton
James Morton is a development economist with
seven years of field experience in the Darfur region of Sudan.
He is presently managing director of HTSPE, a UK development consultancy
which worked extensively in Darfur between 1958 and 1992. This
work started with detailed soil, vegetation and water surveys
and evolved into major development programmes and sociological
and economic studies. James lived and worked in South Darfur from
1982 to 1985 and in West Darfur from 1987 to 1990. He has a BA
in Arabic and a PhD in development economics.
In Darfur, James Morton worked with national
staff on major development programmes and led a series of socio-economic
surveys and other studies. His publications on the region include
his PhD dissertation on agricultural development and the resource
balance in Darfur, and a book, The Poverty of Nations, The
Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa, which takes Darfur as a case
study in aid and development.
Roland Marchal
Roland Marchal is a Senior Research Fellow at
the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chief Editor
of the academic quarterly Politique Africaine.
He has conducted long-term research on the sociology
of conflicts in Africa (and particularly in the Horn of Africa),
with fieldwork in Somalia, Sudan and earlier in Eritrea. He holds
degrees both in Mathematics and Social Sciences from the University
of Strasbourg, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
and University Paris VI.
He has written and published widely on war and
peace in Africa, particularly concerning Somalia, Sudan, and relations
between the region and the Arab Gulf. His many recent publications
include Guerre et Sociétés: Etats et Violence
aprés la Guerre Froide, (with Pierre Hassner, ed.:
Paris, Karthala, 2003); The Somalia: Human Development Report,
(with Ken Menkhaus: Nairobi, UNDP, 1998); Les Chemins de
la Guerre et de la Paix, (with Christine Messiant: Paris,
Karthala, 1997); and Lower Shabelle: Study on Governance (Nairobi,
United Nations Development Office for Somalia, November 1997).
Alex de Waal
After receiving his DPhil from Oxford University,
Alex has worked as an activist and a writer of several books on
famine, human rights and conflict in Africa especially in North
Africa that include Famines Crimes; Politics and the Disaster
relief Industry in Africa. His first major book, The Famine
That Kills came out of his work with Save the Children Fund in
Darfur.
He is editor of the "African issues"
series with James Currey Publishers, and served as Associate Director
of Africa Watch before resigning in 1992 in protest over the US
military intervention in Somalia.
He was a founder and director of African Rights
and Chairman of Mines Advisory Group 1983-88 (co-laureate of the
1997 Nobel Peace Prize), and director of programmes for the International
African Institute. He is currently one of directors of Justice
Africa and a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard.
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