Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation and a research professor at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, and his scholarship and practice have also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building. He was a member of the African Union mediation team for Darfur (2005-06) and senior adviser to the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan (2009-11). He was on the list of Foreign Policy's 100 most influential public intellectuals in 2008 and Atlantic Monthly's 27 'brave thinkers' in 2009.

This highly informative book is full of eye-opening case studies and is a must-read for all activists that genuinely care about the political empowerment of communities affected by conflict.

• Preface1. Introduction: Transnational Advocacy in Contention - Jennifer Ambrose, Casey Hogle, Trisha Taneja and Keren Yohannes2. Genealogies of Transnational Activism - Alex de Waal3. Burma's Struggle for Democracy: A Critical Appraisal - Maung Zarni with Trisha Taneja4. The Janus Face of International Activism and Guatemala's Indigenous Peoples - Roddy Brett5. Advocacy Delegitimized: The Convoluted Case of Gaza - Anat Biletzki6. Conflict Minerals in Congo: The Consequences of Oversimplification - Laura Seay7. 'Make Him Famous': The Single Conflict Narrative of Kony and Kony2012 - Mareike Schomerus8. Getting Away with Mass Murder: The SPLA and Its American Lobbies - Alex de Waal 9. From Whose Perspective Anyway? The Quest for African Disability Rights Activism - Tsitsi Chataika, Maria Berghs, Abraham Mateta and Kudzai Shava10. Activism and the Arms Trade: Exposing the Shadow World - Andrew Feinstein and Alex de Waal 11. A Right to Land? Activism against Land Grabbing in Africa - Rachel Ibreck 12. Conclusion: Reclaiming Activism - Casey Hogle, Trisha Taneja, Keren Yohannes and Jennifer Ambrose