Sudanese Conflicts.

Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
by An-Na'im, Abdullahi Ahmed, and Deng, Francis M. (Editor) This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights.
 

The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced
by Cohen, Roberta (Editor), and Deng, Francis M (Editor)  The coerced displacement of people within the borders of their own countries by armed conflicts, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights has developed throughout various regions of the world. The companion volume to Masses in Flight, this book contains case studies and offers recommendations to the international community to confront these issues.

Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement
by Cohen, Roberta, and Deng, Francis Mading

Whereas refugees crossing national borders benefit from an established system of international protection, those who are displaced internally suffer from an absence of legal or institutional bases for their protection and assistance from the international community. This book analyzes the causes and consequences of population displacement, including its devastating impact both within and beyond the borders of affected countries

The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
by Johnson, Douglas Hamilton
Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by long, recurring, and bloody civil wars. Most commentators have attributed the country's political and civil strife either to an age-old racial and ethnic divide between Arabs and Africans or to colonially constructed inequalities. In The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars, Douglas H. Johnson examines historical, political, economic, and social factors to come to a more subtle understanding of the trajectory of Sudan's civil wars.

Ethnicity and Identities.

War Of Visions: Conflicts of Identities in the Sudan
"War of Visions sheds light on the anomalies of the identity conflict in the Sudan between the Arab-Islamic mold of the North and the indigenous African race of the South.

 Social Problems in Africa: New Vision: Examines social problems in Africa from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.

A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement: 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. In the early 1990's, a group of African leaders and academics gathered to create a new pan-African organization to provide a forum for discussion of democratization, security issues, and sustainable development.

Social Infrastructures .

Dinka of the Sudan (Paperback)
by Francis Mading Deng This ethnography provides a rich, well-balanced view of Dinka life in the Sudan. Always in direct contact with a hostile environment, deprivations, and troubles, the Dinka now form part of modern Sudan but remain among the least touched by modernization.

 The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
 The Nuer is a challenging but supremely rewarding study of a people who, with minimal technology and living a way of life that is very primitive by the standards of Westerners, achieve a perfection of ecological harmony with their environment

Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by Tayeb Salih One of the classic themes followed in this complex novel, translated from the Arabic, is cultural dissonance between East and West, particularly the experience of a returned native...

The Wedding of Zein and Other Sudanese Stories (Paperback)
by Tayeb Salih

These three stories...show what happens when a considerable sophistication and resourcefulness of technique is applied to traditional storytelling material”–The Guardian

Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan (Hardcover)
by Deborah Scroggins
In this gripping, layered analysis of the brutal civil war in Sudan, Scroggins examines the complex relationship between the West and troubled Africa. She studies it through the experiences of Emma McCune, a romantic, idealistic British aid worker who married a Sudanese warlord responsible for the kind of violence she had been trying to ameliorate.

They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
by Raised by Sudan's Dinka tribe, the Deng brothers and their cousin Benjamin were all under the age of seven when they left their homes after terrifying attacks on their villages during the Sudanese civil war. In 2001, the three were relocated to the U.S. from Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp as part of an international refugee relief program.

Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Seven-year-old Francis Piol Bol Buk was living happily on his family's southern Sudan farm. One day in 1986, he was sent on errands to the marketplace. There, a slave raid ripped him from his contented life and threw him into a wretched existence serving under a northern Sudanese Arab.