Comments on: ICC warrant for Bashir strengthens global justice, do-good fundraising http://www.jinamoore.com/2009/03/05/icc-warrant-for-bashir-strengthens-global-justice-do-good-fundraising/ Reporter & Producer Thu, 10 May 2012 22:24:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jina http://www.jinamoore.com/2009/03/05/icc-warrant-for-bashir-strengthens-global-justice-do-good-fundraising/#comment-46 jina Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:16:16 +0000 http://jinamoore.com/?p=425#comment-46 Hi Rico, thanks for the comment. I think you make an excellent point: it's not as if Bashir were building houses and starting job-training programs for Darfuris. They're still in danger, arrest warrant or no. I zipped on over to your blog and read your very interesting take on the matter. You raise the issue of nationalism vs. statehood as a contributing factor in Africa's conflicts. On the one hand, you're right--it's destructive. On the other, it's yet another colonial legacy, right? I mean, the British drew the borders of Sudan, and that's what they left behind. On one level, these difficulties--from Sudan to DRC to Rwanda in 1994 and beyond--are about who gets to be a citizen in the leftover post-colonial state, and who doesn't. They're about interpreting 'statehood.' (I'm totally cribbing this, of course, from Mahmood Mamdani's "Citizen and Subject.") What do you think? Hi Rico, thanks for the comment. I think you make an excellent point: it's not as if Bashir were building houses and starting job-training programs for Darfuris. They're still in danger, arrest warrant or no.

I zipped on over to your blog and read your very interesting take on the matter. You raise the issue of nationalism vs. statehood as a contributing factor in Africa's conflicts. On the one hand, you're right--it's destructive. On the other, it's yet another colonial legacy, right? I mean, the British drew the borders of Sudan, and that's what they left behind. On one level, these difficulties--from Sudan to DRC to Rwanda in 1994 and beyond--are about who gets to be a citizen in the leftover post-colonial state, and who doesn't. They're about interpreting 'statehood.' (I'm totally cribbing this, of course, from Mahmood Mamdani's "Citizen and Subject.")

What do you think?

]]> By: rico http://www.jinamoore.com/2009/03/05/icc-warrant-for-bashir-strengthens-global-justice-do-good-fundraising/#comment-45 rico Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:05:29 +0000 http://jinamoore.com/?p=425#comment-45 Really enjoy your blog. I think the fears of most people are in the wrong place. Instead of worrying about what will happen to Darfuris now that the warrant has been issued we should really focus on what atrocities may continue if Bashir is not arrested. http://www.ricoexplainsitall.com/politcs-economy/2009/3/6/bashir-responds-to-icc-arrest-warrant.html Really enjoy your blog. I think the fears of most people are in the wrong place. Instead of worrying about what will happen to Darfuris now that the warrant has been issued we should really focus on what atrocities may continue if Bashir is not arrested.

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