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the international boundaries of southern Sudan, was published by the

Rift Valley Institute in 2010.

EdWaRd Thomas worked in Sudan and Egypt for twelve years as a

teacher, human rights worker and researcher. He completed a PhD at

Edinburgh University in 1998 on the history of the Republican movement,

a Sufi-inspired group that called for the reform of Islamic law and civil

rights for all Sudanese. He is the author of Islam’s Perfect Stranger: The Life

of Mahmud Muhammad Taha (2010). He was Director of the RVI Sudan

Course 2009–2010.

GéRaRd PRuniER is a former researcher at the Centre Nationale de la

Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and has worked on East African modern

history and politics for the past 20 years. He is the author of The Rwanda

Crisis (1959–1994): History of a Genocide (1995), Darfur: The Ambiguous

Genocide (2005) and Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the

Making of a Continental Catastrophe (2009). He is currently an independent

consultant on African affairs.

JéRômE Tubiana is a researcher specializing on Darfur and Chad.

He has travelled extensively in both countries as a consultant for the

US Agency for International Development (USAID), the AU-UN Joint

Mediation Support Team (JMST) for the Darfur peace process, and various

NGOs. He is the author of the book Chroniques du Darfour (Glénat, 2010),

a number of reports on Darfur and Chad for the Small Arms Survey and

‘Darfur: a war for land?’ in Alex de Waal (ed.), War in Darfur and the Search

for Peace (2007). He holds a PhD in African Studies from the Institut

National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris.

John RylE is Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology at Bard

College, New York, and Director of the Rift Valley Institute. He has

worked in Sudan as an anthropologist, writer, film-maker and human

rights researcher and is the author of Warriors of the White Nile (1984), a

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(www.riftvalley.net).