David Morse

Author, Activist & Journalist

David's Darfur section includes resources, recent essays, interviews with Samantha Power, Alex de Waal, book reviews, links to Sudan-related sites and timely action appeals. Discover ways you can make a difference.

Latest Review

The Translator, by Daoud Hari, is one of the most compelling books I have ever read, period.

News & Updates

Why I'm abandoning the word "genocide" to describe what's happening today in Darfur.
Andrew Natsios's recent opinion piece in The Washington Post ("Obama, Adrift on Sudan") sounds a timely warning to the Darfur advocacy movement. (See washingtonpost.com article here.) . . . I think he is right to decry as counter-productive the continuing use of the word "genocide" to describe the present level of violence in Darfur.

. . . I suggest also writing or calling Congressional Representatives and asking them to cosponsor House Continuing Resolution 159, "Recognizing the fifth anniversary of the declaration by the United States Congress of genocide in Darfur, Sudan." [Download pdf file.] The resolution briefly restates why the U.S. declared a genocide to be occurring in Darfur, recounts some of the recent history, and calls for a comprehensive approach to peace for all of Sudan. [See complete text of "Focus on Lives, Not Labels"]

January 2009: New photo essay by David: "From Darfur to Nairobi".

News from Abyei the "Kashmir" of Sudan's north-south conflicts.

Sprouts: HOPE For Ariang Village and Sudan [128Kbps mp3 (26.79MB)]
Gabriel Bol Deng of South Sudan talks about his journey from a refugee camp to the US and back to Sudan with David and Jen Marlowe.

"With the Lost Boys in Southern Sudan. Starting from Zero (Part 1)" and "The Coming Collision in Sudan (Part 2)" by David Morse available at tomdispatch.com.

David and filmmaker Jen Marlowe accompanied three "Lost Boys" - Gabriel Bol Deng, Chris Koor Garang, and Garang Mayuol to their villages to deliver humanitarian aid and find out if they had family alive. [See slide show here]