Francis Mading Deng est une voix importante qui explore les intersections complexes du droit, de la résolution des conflits, des déplacements internes et des droits de l'homme. Fort de sa vaste expérience académique et diplomatique, ses écrits plongent dans les crises d'identité nationale et les bouleversements sociaux avec une profonde perspicacité anthropologique et historique. L'approche de Deng se caractérise par sa capacité à relier des concepts juridiques théoriques à des récits humains urgents, éclairant les impacts multidimensionnels du changement politique et social. Son œuvre prolifique offre aux lecteurs une compréhension approfondie des défis de l'Afrique moderne et des thèmes universels de justice et d'appartenance.
Catastrophes such as Somalia reach public attention as humanitarian emergencies, but the underlying causes are the disintegration of political institutions and the resulting chaos and insecurity. This book suggests that the international community ignored clear warning signs in Somalia and missed several opportunities to use diplomacy to prevent state collapse.
In internal conflicts in Africa, sovereign states have often failed to take responsibility for their own citizens' welfare and for the humanitarian consequences of conflict, leaving the victims with no assistance. This book shows how that responsibility can be exercised by states over their own population, and by other states in assistance to their fellow sovereigns.
The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country.