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Darfur, Khartoum, eastern Sudan and Norway. He is the author of Beyond

Labelling: Somalis and Sudanese in Norway and the Challenge of Homemaking

(2003), and co-editor of Diasporas Within and Without Africa: Dynamism,

Heterogeneity, Variation (2006).

Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil is Associate Professor and Head of

the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of

Khartoum. His research and publications have focused on the areas of

ethnicity, migration, customary law, customary land tenure and tradi-

tional mechanisms for conflict management. His recently published

works include: ‘Intertribal Conflicts in Darfur: Scarcity of Resources

or Crises of Governance?’ in Environment and Conflict in Africa: Reflections

from Darfur, edited by Marcel Leroy (2009 and ‘Power-Sharing and Ethnic

Mobilization: The Role of Schoolteachers in Conflict Management in

North Darfur’, in Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan, edited by

Salah M. Hassan and Carina E. Ray (2009).

OmER EGEmi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography

at the University of Khartoum. He received his PhD from the University

of Bergen, Norway, in 1995; his thesis examined the political ecology of

subsistence crises among the Hadendowa pastoralists of the Rea Sea

Hills, Sudan. He was Project Manager for a UNDP project to reduce

natural resource-based conflict between pastoralists and farmers in

North Darfur, North Kordofan and the Sobat Basin.

PEtER WoodWaRd is Professor Emeritus, University of Reading. He

taught in Sudan with Voluntary Service Overseas before lecturing at the

University of Khartoum. He is author of many books and articles on

North East Africa, most recently US Foreign Policy and the Horn of Africa

(2006), and was Editor of African Affairs, the Journal of the Royal African

Society from 1986 to 1997.

PhiliP WintER OBE is the representative for Independent Diplomat

The Sudan Handbook, edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok. © 2011 Rift Valley Institute and contributors in Juba, Southern Sudan. He was a Senior Advisor in MONUC 2008–

(www.riftvalley.net).