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  • Customary Law in the Modern World

    The Crossfire of Sudan's War of Identities

    by Francis Deng ...
    Customary Law in the Modern World is the study of a coherent and well-established legal system, which is now operating in the context of a modern nation-state and therefore poised between remaining relevant and the threat of marginalization.Focusing on Sudan, the author places customary law in its historical and cultural context, analyzing the fundamental and traditional values that underlie ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Frontiers Of Unity

    An Experiment in Afro-Arab Cooperation

    by Francis Deng ...
    This book deals with the conflict between Northern and Southern Sudan over the Abeyi region and other border areas. This area has historically been a model of peaceful coexistence and cooperation but since its independence it has become a point of violent confrontation. Frontiers of Unity provides an essential background to the complexities of the conflict, looking at the factors behind it and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Protecting the Dispossessed

    A Challenge for the International Community

    by Francis M. Deng ...
    An estimated 25 million people worldwide are internally displaced-a significantly larger population than the 18 million refugees. Victims of civil wars, forced relocation, communal violence, natural and ecological disasters, and gross violations of human rights, they lack such human necessities as food, shelter, clothing, safety, basic health, and education. But because they remain inside their ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Challenges of Famine Relief

    Emergency Operations

    by Francis M. Deng, Larry Minear ...
    For nearly a decade, international efforts to combat famine and food shortages around the globe have concentrated on the critical situations in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sudan, the largest country in Africa, prolonged drought, complicated by civil strife and debilitating economic problems, has caused widespread human suffering. The Sudan illustrates the proverbial worst-case scenario in which ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Bound by Conflict

    Dilemmas of the Two Sudans

    by Francis Mading Deng ...
    Since its independence on January 1, 1956, Sudan has been at war with itself. Through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005, the North–South dimension of the conflict was seemingly resolved by the independence of the South on July 9, 2011. However, as a result of issues that were not resolved by the CPA, conflicts within the two countries have reignited conflict between them because of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Blood of Two Streams

    Gender Balance in Parental Legacy

    by Francis Mading Deng ...
    This book—part memoir, part political statement—examines the influence of the author’s maternal and paternal ancestry on his life. Delving into the rich history of Francis Mading Deng’s heritage, Blood of Two Streams acts as a bridge to cross-cultural understanding and multidisciplinary connection between the personal, the communal, and the universal. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Forsaken People

    Case Studies of the Internally Displaced

    Edited by Francis M. Deng, Roberta Cohen ...
    The coerced displacement of people within the borders of their own countries by armed conflicts, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights has become a pervasive feature of the post Cold War era. The plight of the displaced poses a challenge that is not only humanitarian but a threat to the security and stability of countries, regions, and, through a chain effect, the ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Human Rights in Africa

    Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim, Francis M. Deng ...
    This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries.This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Conflict Resolution in Africa

    Edited by Francis M. Deng, I. William Zartman ...
    While dramatic changes are taking place on the international scene and among the major powers, Africa continues to suffer from a multitude of violent conflicts. The toll of these conflicts is monumental in terms of war damage to productivity, scarce resources diverted to armaments and military organizations, and the resulting insecurity, displacement, and destruction. At the same time, Africans, ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu

    Capturing Cultural Capital

    by Mohamed Abusabib, Mai Azzam, Balghis Badri, Francis Mading Deng, Daniel Jok Deng, Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim, Enrico Ille, Amani El Jack, Luka Biong D. Kuol, Rabah Al Sadig, Fatima Babiker Mahmoud, Sana Makawi, Wini Omer, Mai Izzeldeen, Mariam Sharif, Atta El-Battahani ...
    Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu: Capturing Cultural Capital propels Sudanese intellectuals into the global intellectual milieu and argues for their place in world intellectual history. The contributors posit that Sudan is currently in its most uncertain and perhaps most generative period, as the unrest, conflicts, and upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries threw Sudanese ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    by Antoinette Vlieger ...
    Fascinating study and inside account of the lives of maids and caregivers in the oil-rich Middle East, who become contractually bound to near-slavery by taking positions overseas. Dutch law professor Vlieger interviewed many maids, bosses, and job agencies to get to the truth. She places what she found into a theoretical frame of petropolitics. Accessible to everyone, with compelling stories. ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Islamic Law

    by Wael B. Hallaq ...
    The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its pre-modern natural habitat. The second part explains how the law was ... Read more

    $34.49 USD