Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peacebuilding.

Read more from Alex:

Accord Issue 18: Sudan

Accord Issue 19: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality

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