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  • The Man Called Deng Majok
    Francis Mading Deng
    Deng Majok succeeded his father Kwol Arob, as Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka of Abyei in 1943 and reigned until his death in 1969. He is widely recognized as one of the most prominent tribal leaders who contributed effectively to the maintenance of peace, security and stability in Sudan s volatile North-South border area, where warrior African and Arab tribes come in contact...
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    20,48 €

  • Talking it out
    Francis Mading Deng
    This innovative work by Francis Deng, the noted scholar, diplomat, legal expert and author, moves the study of negotiation out of the limited traditional context of industrial relations and resituates it in the broader arena of negotiating human relations, drawing on his childhood experiences, inter-racial and cross-cultural encounters at home and abroad, and incidents from his...
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    24,55 €

  • A Journey of Ideas
    Francis Mading Deng
    Over a forty-year career,Dr Francis Mading Deng, South Sudan’s most eminent statesman, diplomat and academic, became one of Africa’s most prolific writers. His catalogue includes books (fiction and non-fiction), journal articles, policy documents, reports, opinion pieces, think tank analysis, and more. This collection of his writings will lead the reader through his early years...
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    28,33 €

  • The Dinka and their Songs
    Francis Mading Deng
    Singing is very popular among the Dinka. With ox songs, although the practice may now be dying, every man is traditionally supposed Singing is very popular among the Dinka. With ox songs, although the practice may now be dying, every man is traditionally supposed to compose his own songs. In that sense, every Dinka man is not only a singer, but also a poet. Other categories of ...
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    24,86 €

  • WARRIORS FROM ABYEI in The Liberation of South Sudan
    Francis Mading Deng
    Modern day peace and war in South Sudan - the story of five individuals caught up in the conflict between North and South and their different ways of resisting and seeking justice for their people; at times tragic, heroic and gripping, presenting real life and death encounters in Africa and what it means to rebel against a well-armed opposition. This is a solid contribution to ...
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    38,13 €

  • Visitations Conversations with the Ghost of the Chairman
    Francis Mading Deng
    ’I read Visitations: Conversations with the Ghost of the Chairman with great ambivalence. On the one hand I turned each page with eager anticipation of what these two great souls, one dead and one alive, would reveal next about one of the great revolutionary struggles of our time. And yet, on the other hand, I knew that this heroic struggle waged, in their own way, by the schol...
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    20,60 €

  • Invisible Bridge
    Francis Mading Deng / TBD
    Francis Deng was in his second year in 1959-60, one of only four or five Southern law students. He was one of the favoured sons of Deng Majok, the well-known Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka, the only Nilotic people to live in Northern Sudan. Francis was quite short for a Dinka, only about six-foot, but he was recognizably Nilotic and, without putting on airs, had a dignified ...
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    53,67 €

  • Customary Law in the Modern World
    Francis Deng
    Customary Law in the Modern World is the study of a coherent and well-established legal system, which is now operating in the context of a modern nation-state and therefore poised between remaining relevant and the threat of marginalization. ...
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    94,50 €

  • Strategic Vision for Africa
    Francis M. Deng / I. William Zartman
    'Increasingly marginalized since the end of the Cold War, the continent of Africa is struggling to identify both the root causes and possible solutions to the maladies that continue to plague it. The problems read like a laundry list of misrule in the aftermath of decolonization: rampant political corruption, internecine wars, widespread disease, underdevelopment, and economic ...
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    31,82 €

  • Masses in Flight
    Francis M. Deng / Roberta Cohen
    'Since the end of the Cold War, increasing numbers of people have been forced to leave their homes as a result of armed conflict, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights. Whereas refugees crossing national borders benefit from an established system of international protection and assistance, those who are displaced internally suffer from an absence of legal o...
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    38,77 €

  • Sovereignty as Responsibility
    Francis M. Deng / Sadikiel Kimaro / Terrence Lyons
    'The authors assert that sovereignty can no longer be seen as a protection against interference, but as a charge of responsibility where the state is accountable to both domestic and external constituencies. In internal conflicts in Africa, sovereign states have often failed to take responsibility for their own citizens' welfare and for the humanitarian consequences of con...
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    34,12 €

  • War of Visions
    Francis M. Deng
    '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. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified in racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious terms. The...
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    42,05 €

  • Protecting the Dispossessed
    Francis M. Deng
    'An estimated 25 million people worldwide are internally displaced—a significantly larger population than the 18 million refugees. Victims of civil wars, forced relocation, communal violence, natural and ecological disasters, and gross violations of human rights, they lack such human necessities as food, shelter, clothing, safety, basic health, and education. But because t...
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    31,94 €

  • Challenges of Famine Relief
    Francis M. Deng / Larry Minear
    'For nearly a decade, international efforts to combat famine and food shortages around the globe have concentrated on the critical situations in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sudan, the largest country in Africa, prolonged drought, complicated by civil strife and debilitating economic problems, has caused widespread human suffering. The Sudan illustrates the proverbial worst-case ...
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    29,34 €