Dan Large

Just landed! Happy to share that my book 'China and Africa: The New Era' has just been published by @politybooks. It’s politics, not economics that defines the ‘new era’ of China Africa relations. Further information: politybooks.com/bookdetail/?is…

My article, ‘China, Africa and the 2021 Dakar FOCAC’ has been published in the latest issue of @AfrAfJournal and is available at academic.oup.com/afraf/article/… #ChinaAfrica #AfricaChina

The 2022 @RVInews field course on #SudanandSouthSudan directed by @Alden_Young & @KuyangHarrietLo

Congratulations to the @RVI for turning 20 this year! Looking forward to the #RVIat20 first online event: ‘Connecting the Past and the Present’ 9 September 2-4pm EAT. Registration at bit.ly/3yOo5hB Full info rvi20.net

For anyone interested in deeper historical context and documentation on peace processes in Sudan, including in the 1990s and the 2005 CPA, see dur.ac.uk/library/asc/su… from @durham_uni and the digital Sudan Open Archive sudanarchive.net from @RVInews

This new archive joins the relatively few well documented African peace processes, inc the Sudan Peace Archive at Tufts University (on the AU’s leadership in the Darfur peace process, mediation between Sudan & South Sudan), a notable exception sites.tufts.edu/wpf/sudan-peac… @alyverjee

As @alyverjee writes: ‘Documenting peace processes may be even more important in the digital age where future practitioners and scholars have no alternative paper trail to follow; we owe it to those that come after us to leave a clear record.’ usip.org/publications/2…

The new South Sudan Peace Process Archive has a great Search function - usip.org/south-sudan-pe… - and interactive timeline - #timeline" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">usip.org/programs/south… @USIP @alyverjee @ZachVertin

Delighted to receive my copy of Making and Breaking Peace in #Sudan and #SouthSudan. Congrats to the editors Sarah Nouwen @SarahCambr, Laura James @LaJaOxAn and Sharath Srinivasan @sharath_sri and many thanks for including my chapter on China

CFP for the @SaisCari Annual Conference 2020: ‘Strategic Interests, Security Implications: #China, #Africa, and the Rest.’ Deadline for proposals: December 23, 2019. Full details at sais-cari.org

Call for Papers #Chinese in #Africa/#Africans in #China Research Network @CAAC_Network 6th conference: 'Precarious Futures? Geopolitics, Mobility & Materiality', Lingnan University, Hong Kong, July 2020. Deadline for abstracts:15 October 2019 caac2020hk.org

Cloud Country is a new graphic novel memoir about being black in East Asia, based on the experiences of author Aaliyah Bilal, with graphics by Robert Liu Trujillo. Chapter 1 at cloudcountrythebook.com/the-book-1

Great new and topical edited volume just out: New Development Assistance: Emerging Economies and the New Landscape of Development Assistance edited by Yijia Jing, @alvaroimendez and Yu Zheng. palgrave.com/gp/book/978981…

The 2019 @RVInews Sudan and South Sudan course - directed by @Alden_Young and Naomi Pendle - covers all areas of #Sudan and #SouthSudan, past and present. An essential orientation. Full details at riftvalley.net/event/sudan-an…

Local leaders, like Uganda's Museveni, can play off outside investors to improve investment terms & avoid over-dependence on a single one. Sudan did the same 15 yrs ago, bringing in India to balance with China. @dantmlarge & I wrote about it here: diis.dk/files/media/pu…

Welcome to the 21st century: @ceuhungary forced out of Budapest. #IStandWithCEU #SzabadEgyetem

‘Living memory of famine in #SouthSudan: using local knowledge to inform famine early warning’ disq.us/t/372xalx. Great example of why/how past knowledge matters today. Thanks for citing Harrogin & Chol’s Southern Sudan Vulnerability Study in @RVInews Sudan Open Archive

CFP #Sudan Studies Postgraduate Conference @DUSESG Oxford, May 2019. Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2019. Further information from Sudanstudiesconference@gmail.com

Thanks, Massimo Zaccaria, for describing the @RVInews Sudan Open Archive (sudanarchive.net) as “one of the most interesting and rich achievements on the current scene.” See ‘Digital Sources for the History of the Horn of #Africa’ at africanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/a…

2019 Conflict Research Fellowship with the @SSRC_org Understanding Violent Conflict program, esp. for those working on Iraq, Syria, Somalia, South Sudan and the DRC. Full details at ssrc.org/fellowships/vi…