As Faisal Goes West’s  writer and director tours London raising the necessary funds to complete the film he stopped by BBC for an interview. Listen to it here: INTERVIEW!

For many, the KONY 2012 video has been a window into a conflict about which they previously knew quite little: the Ugandan government’s struggle against the rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The video calls on the viewer’s moral conscience, advocating support for U.S. military assistance to the Ugandan government in its counter-insurgency efforts [...]

Hey all. I’m traveling to Shanghai for my wedding. I’m regretfully signing off for the rest of the month. I’ll be back posting in April. cheers, Justin

 UPDATE: Just had a friend email these perfect quotes from Mahmood Mamdani’s book Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror where as my friend notes that “Mamdani focuses on the power of naming”: “But how do we know it is genocide? Because we are told it is. This is why the battle for naming [...]

Check out Daniel Solomon’s blog Securing Rights where he recently posted: Here, There, and Everywhere, a response to current advocacy calls for unilateral aid: As I’ve discussed in a prior post, an emerging coalition of human rights advocates have called for the implementation of a non-consensual, cross-border aid delivery operation in South Kordofan and Blue Nile. The New York [...]

Just found out about the world premere of a new documentary film, Valentino’s Ghost… and it’s taking place here in Dallas on Saturday, March 10th.  We’re not affiliated with the film, but genuinely wish we were: Valentino’s Ghost shows the way in which images of Arabs and Muslims in U.S. media over the decades, mirror America’s [...]

I don’t know if these maps are more useful or unnerving, but the Migration Policy Institute (a US based policy think-tank) has released some nicelooking maps and graphs that they constructed out of the 2010 US census community survey.  They are so into graphs and maps that they even have a “graph of the month” which [...]

The website is temporarily ugly. We’re working on it and hope to have it cleaned up by the end of the week.  Sorry for any confusion our mess may cause.

To anyone looking for something to do tonight come visit us at the “Discover Sudan” event held by the Northwestern University DFW Alumni Club–I and at least one other contributor to this website will be speaking tonight on the current conflict in South Kordofan.  The details are below and you can check out more here [...]

I’ve posted some of my (Justin’s) reports from the Nuba Peace Coalition website. (These reports begin November 2011 and are ongoing… for the most recent reports click here.)  I hope they provide some context and background to the discussion. Week’s Summary: Interview with Contacts in Kauda on 11/5/11 This is our second call to our [...]

We hope this page can get you up to speed… and that you help us fill in the gaps by commenting.  We’ll incorporate your additions. We want this page to cover very basic facts–nothing controversial. What is South Kordofan? Let’s start with the wiki article: Southern Kordofan (Arabic: جنوب كردفان‎ Ğanūb Kurdufān) is one of the 15 wilayat or provinces of Sudan. [...]

Hey all- we’ve finally launched the trailer. We’re excited. Watch it after the jump.  

A little over a week ago Kristoff published his Op-Ed on the conflict in the Nuba Mountains.  Go here  Also check out the tweet  Then he released an Op-Ed Video.  This has been followed by several other news reports/ activity (Example and  Example) or just do a Google News Search for Nuba Mountains.   In general I’m not [...]

Stay posted because sometime over the next couple of days we’ll be making a couple of big announcements regarding Faisal Goes West.  Don’t know about Faisal yet? look here

On the 28th we’ll be speaking to the Northwestern Alumni Group in Dallas, TX. Specifically, I’ll be addressing the current conflict in South Kordofan.  I’ll post updates when the become available.

What was discussed by the SPLM and the Chinese hostages release with regard tocontested oil revenues and/or cessitation of bombing by SAF?

I’ve set up the site for some serious discussion on the current conflict in South Kordofan, and started it off with the 13 Questions post.  You’ll notice I’ve created a dedicated page for the discussion and added a link in the navigation bar at the top of the page.  In addition to discussion is also [...]

UPDATE: Ok, after some fun HTML issues I believe I’ve gotten the comments open.  I’d really like to let this become an open forum for debate on the Conflict in South Kordofan. Particularly as the conflict gains attention in the press it’s more important than ever that there’s a space for constructive dialogue. QUESTIONS ON [...]