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- Satellite mapping of attacks on Darfur - Online video games - Photo essays - Online documentaries and interviews - Darfur Radio Project - Books – elementary students - Books – middle and high school students - DVDs/Videos – middle and high school students 1. PBS online: The Darfur Crisis  Video on how satellite mapping technology is being used to document attacks in Darfur. Click here to see more. 2 Amnesty International: Eyes on Darfur  Eyes On Darfur breaks new ground in protecting human rights by allowing people around the world to literally "watch over" and protect twelve intact, but highly vulnerable, villages using commercially available satellite imagery. www.eyesondarfur.org 3. Google Earth and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: World is Witness  The Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative brings together data, photographs, video, and eyewitness testimony in Google Earth to help inform citizens, governments, and institutions about current and potential genocides and related crimes against humanity, and to respond. www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/darfur blogs.ushmm.org/WorldIsWitness/region/C39  1. Food Force – UN World Food Programme  As team rookie you have six missions to complete. Each mission represents a part of the process of delivering food aid to an area in crisis. The final mission shows you how food aid can help people rebuild their lives in the years following a disaster. Check it out. 2. Darfur is Dying Š MTV-U  Darfur is Dying is a viral video game for change that provides a window into the experience of the 2.5 million refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. Players must keep their refugee camp functioning in the face of possible attack by Janjaweed militias. Check it out. 3. Camp Darfur: Living Like A Refugee Š Second Life  Camp Darfur in Second Life gives avatars in the virtual world Second Life a chance to walk through a ghost town of a refugee camp, victimized by years of torture and genocide. Camp Darfur memorializes those lost in the Sudan and offers ways to get involved in sharing this story. Check it out. 1. Daily Life and Education in DarfurÕs Camps Š UNICEF  Documents the challenges facing kids in Darfur, and how UNICEF is helping make a difference. www.unicef.org/photoessays/25400.html 2. Conflict Drawn: The conflict in Darfur through childrenÕs eyes - Human Rights Watch  On a mission along the border of Chad and Darfur, Human Rights Watch researchers gave children notebooks and crayons to keep them occupied while they spoke with the childrenÕs parents. Without any instruction or guidance, the children drew scenes from their experiences of the war in Darfur. www.hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/drawings 3. In Darfur, my camera was not nearly enough Š Brian Steidle & the USHMM  Brian Steidle, a former U.S. Marine, was a member of the African Union team monitoring the conflict in Darfur, where he took hundreds of photographs documenting atrocities. http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/darfur/steidle/ 4. Sudan: Staring Genocide in the Face Š Jerry Fowler & the USHMM  July 13, 2004 -- I went to the African country of Chad in May on behalf of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to investigate the threat of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, right across the border. What I saw and heard haunts me still. http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/darfur/staring_genocide_in_the_face/ for middle and high school students 1. Darfur: On Our Watch - CBC and PBS co-production  DARFUR: On Our Watch examines why it took the UN so long to respond to the obvious early warning signs of a horrific ethnic cleansing. It will document in chilling detail how politics, oil, guns and money trumped human rights as powerful interests on the Security Council blocked the world from acting, and how the United States, weakened by wars in Somalia and Iraq could not influence the world forum to act. www.cbc.ca/doczone/darfur 2. Interview with Debbie Bodkin - CBC's The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos  Debbie Bodkin has seen a lot of human misery in her job as a Sergeant with the Waterloo Regional Police Service. But nothing prepared her for what she saw and heard interviewing Darfur refugees in 2004 and 2005, as a volunteer for fact-finding missions by the U.S. and the United Nations www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=728639740
The Darfur Radio Project is a monthly 29-minute broadcast that explores the historical, political, economic, and social contexts of the conflict in Darfur. Founded in 2006, DRP is based in the Philadelphia area but has contacts across the globe. A wide range of people are interviewed for the broadcast including analysts, activists, and Sudanese. www.darfurradioproject.org 1. The Sudan Project: Rebuilding With the People of Darfur - A Young Person's Guide - Melissa Leembruggen (Paperback)  2. We Hear You: American KidsÕ Reflections on Darfur (Paperback) - with a foreword by Maya Angelou  "The thoughts running through the children's minds have occurred to many people familiar with the crisis in Darfur. The kids, however, wanted to do something about it and unlike many, they actually did." - Loudoun Times 1. The Translator - Daoud Hari  The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world- an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories of our time. Using his high school knowledge of languages as his weapon - while others around him were taking up arms - Daoud Hari has helped inform the world about Darfur. More info 2. Not on Our Watch - Don Cheadle & John Prendergast  Over the past five years, youth groups, religious organizations, politicians and individuals have responded to the crisis in Sudan in increased numbers. This book is a guide for these already involved, as well as those who are interested in taking action, or speaking out against the mass killings that continue to occur in the country's Darfur region. More info 3. Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival - Jen Marlowe  "Read this book! ItÕs the most fresh and engaging account of the Darfur tragedy yet to come out. ItÕs also the funny, thoughtful story of three young Westerners who try and succeed against all obstacles in reaching the Darfurians and bringing back the story in all its utterly human complexity." - Deborah Scroggins, author of "EmmaÕs War" More info 1. The Devil Came on Horseback - starring Brian Steidle  The Devil Came on Horseback exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness who has since returned to the US to take action to stop it. Uses the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle. More info 2. Darfur Diaries: Message From Home - directed by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe & Adam Shapiro In October and November, 2004, after watching woefully inadequate media coverage on the crisis in Darfur, a team of three independent filmmakers trekked to Darfurian refugee camps in eastern Chad and crept across the border into Darfur. They met dozens of Darfurians, and spoke with them about their history, hopes and fears, and the tragedy they are living. More info 3.Darfur NOW - starring Don Cheadle and others  Darfur NOW follows six people who have taken up the challenge to help stop the murder, rape and displacement the Fur, Zaghawa and Masalit people of Darfur have suffered since 2003. With: Don Cheadle, Hejewa Adam, Pablo Recalde, Ahmed Mohammed Abakar, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Adam Sterling. More info |
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