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Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Mahmood Mamdani. London, Verso, 2009. 416 pp. Hardback £17.99, ISBN 978-1844673414

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2010

Lutz Oette
Lutz Oette
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Lecturer in law, School of Oriental and African Studies Programme advisor, The Redress Trust
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Journal of African Law , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , October 2010 , pp. 313 - 318
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References

1 At 272.

2 Prosecutor v Akayesu ICTR-96-4-T, trial chamber judgment (2 September 1998), para 702.

3 See in particular: de Waal, A and Salam, AHA “Islamism, state power and jihad in Sudan” in de Waal, A (ed) Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa (2004, Hurst and Company) 71;Google Scholar and Gallab, AAThe First Islamic Republic, Development and Disintegration of Islamism in the Sudan (2008, Ashgate).Google Scholar

4 2005 World Summit outcome, UN doc A/60/L.1, 15 September 2005, para 139.

5 The terms saviours and victims have been employed in an influential article by Mutua, MW “Savages, victims, and saviors: The metaphor of human rights” (2001) 42 Harvard International Law Journal 201.Google Scholar

6 At 275.

7 See in this context the website of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, responsible for the 2001 report on RtP: <http://www.iciss.ca/menu-en.asp> (last accessed 28 August 2009).

8 Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights “Making peace our own: Victims' perceptions of accountability, reconciliation and transitional justice in northern Uganda” (research study, August 2007); and P Pham, P Vinck, E Stover, A Moss, M Wierda and R Bailey “When the war ends” (a population-based survey on attitudes about peace, justice and social reconstruction in northern Uganda: Human Rights Center, University of California Berkeley; Payson Center for International Development, Tulane University; and International Center for Transitional Justice, December 2007).

9 At 281.

10 At 224.

11 At 273.

12 However, see the remarkable report published by the Mbeki panel and the recommendations contained in it: “Darfur: The quest for peace, justice and reconciliation” (report of the AU High Level Panel on Darfur, 29 October 2009): PSC/AHG/2 (CCVII).

13 At 16.