Douglas H. Johnson

Dr. Douglas H. Johnson is a scholar specializing in the history of North East Africa, Sudan and the Southern Sudan. He was a resource person in the 2003 Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement negotiations over the Three Areas (Abyei, Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile) and later a member of the Abyei Boundary Commission. Since then, he has advised the Government of South Sudan on North-South boundary issues.^[1]

Selected publications

• “Decolonizing the Borders in Sudan: Ethnic Territories and National Development”, in Empire, Development and Colonialism: The Past in the Present, (Mark Duffield & Vernon Hewitt, eds), Woodbrige & Rochester NY: James Currey, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84701-011-7
• “Tribe or Nationality? The Sudanese Diaspora and the Kenyan Nubis”, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Volume 3, Number 1, pp. 112-31, 2009
• “Political Intelligence, Colonial Ethnography and Analytical Anthropology in the Sudan”, Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge (Helen Tilley & Robert Gordon, eds), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-7190-6239-1
• “Darfur: Peace, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in Sudan”, in Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa (Preben Kaarsholm, ed), Oxford: James Currey, 2006, ISBN 978-0-85255-894-2
• The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars, James Currey: Oxford, 2003, ISBN 978-0-85255-392-3
• Editor, "Series B, Volume 5 (Sudan)" in British Documents on the End of Empire, 1998
  • Part I 1942-1950 ISBN 0112905633
  • Part II 1951-1956, ISBN 0112905641
• "The Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the Problem of Factionalism" in African Guerrillas (Christopher Clapham, ed). Oxford: James Currey, 1998, ISBN 978-0-85255-815-7
• Joanna Macrae, Mark Bradbury, Susanne Jaspars, Douglas Johnson & Mark Duffield, "Conflict, the Continuum and Chronic Emergencies: A Critical Analysis of the Scope for Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Planning in Sudan" in Disasters, Volume 21 Issue 3, Pages 223 - 243, September 1997
• Karim, Ataul, Mark Duffield, Susanne Jaspars, Aldo Benini, Joanna Macrae, Mark Bradbury, Douglas Johnson & George Larbi. Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS): a review (Geneva: Department of Humanitarian Affairs, 1996)
• Wendy James, Gerd Baumann & Douglas Johnson, eds, Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883, London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996, ISBN 0-904180-34-4
• Editor, C.A. Willis, The Upper Nile Province Handbook: A Report on Peoples and Government in the Southern Sudan, 1931, Oriental and African Archives 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-726146-0
• David M. Anderson & Douglas H. Johnson, eds, Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in Eastern African History, London: James Currey, 1995, ISBN 978-0-85255-718-1
• Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-19-823367-1
• Editor, Governing the Nuer: Documents by Percy Coriat on Nuer History and Ethnography, 1922-1931, Oxford: JASO, 1993, ISBN 1-870047-45-1
• "Salim Wilson: The Black Evangelist of the North", Journal of Religion in Africa, Volume 21, Number 1, pp. 26-41 , 1991
• "Criminal Secrecy: The Case of the Zande 'Secret Societies'" in Past & Present, Volume 130, Number 1, pp. 170-200, 1991
• “Political Ecology in the Upper Nile: The Twentieth Century Expansion of the Pastoral ‘Common Economy’”, Journal of African History, Volume 30, Number 3, pp. 463-86, 1989
• Douglas H. Johnson & David M. Anderson, eds, The Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History, London: Lester Crook Academic Publishing, 1988, ISBN 1-870915-00-3
• Wendy James & Douglas H. Johnson, eds, Vernacular Christianity: Essays in the Social Anthropology of Religion, Oxford: JASO, 1988, ISBN 1-870047-30-3
• "Sudanese Military Slavery from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century" in Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour (Léonie J. Archer, ed), London: Routledge, 1988 ISBN 0-415-00203-6
• “On the Nilotic Frontier: Imperial Ethiopia in the Southern Sudan, 1898-1936”, in The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology (D. Donham & Wendy James, eds), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 (paperback Oxford: James Currey, 2002 ISBN 978-0-85255-794-5)
• “The Death of Gordon: a Victorian Myth”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 285-310, 1982
• “Tribal Boundaries and Border Wars: Nuer-Dinka Relations in the Sobat and Zaraf Valleys, c. 1860-1976”, Journal of African History, Volume 23, Number 2, pp. 183-203, 1982
• "Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer, and the Sudan Political Service" in African Affairs, Volume 81, Number 323, pp. 231-246, 1982
• "History and Prophecy among the Nuer of the Southern Sudan", PhD thesis, UCLA, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1980

References

1. ^ "Why Abyei Matters", oxfordjournals.org, 2007

External links

• "SUDAN: Interview with Douglas Johnson, expert on the Abyei Boundary Commission", IRIN, 29 May 2006
• "Douglas Johnson - Sudan's Civil Wars", hosted by Google Video, distributed by understandingsudan.org, 2006

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