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Article: Cows, Korans, and Kalashnikovs: the multiple dimemensions of conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Central Sudan.
- Article from:
- Military Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
- Author:
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: With continued massive human suffering and violence in Darfur, there is discussion about increasing U.S. and international military involvement in the Sudan. With that in mind, this article provides an overview of the 2002 cease-fire monitoring mission in the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan. Singular, bounded, and often inchoate causes--"It is a religious conflict"; "It is a competition for diminishing resources"--are often given as explanations for the conflict there and in Darfur. These explanations are not wrong in themselves, but they are inaccurate and misleading, if one examines them in isolation. The discord in the Nuba Mountains, for example, ...