Richard Barltrop – författare

Since the arrival of Huthi rule in Sana’a in 2014, Yemen has suffered from intense war, foreign intervention and political, economic and humanitarian crises. This book explores peace in Yemen, including how the international community has approached peacemaking in the country, how Yemenis perceive peace, and what is needed to achieve a more peaceful future for the country.The book covers the emergence of Huthi rule and the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, through to the Huthi escalations in the Red Sea and conflict with Israel in 2024–25. In doing so, the authors examine the constraints on making and building peace in Yemen from various key angles, such as: regional and international engagement; politics, society, gender and the economy; the realities of present-day Yemen; and what these mean for peace and conflict now and in the future.The book challenges the methods and practices of normative international peacemaking, including the women, peace and security agenda. It also challenges assumptions and ideas about the internationally recognized government, and the Huthis and Yemen more broadly. In aiming to show how Yemen can reach a better future, this research will interest policymakers, mediators and humanitarian and development workers who want to deepen their understanding of a country where decades of conflict and crises have posed major challenges.

Darfur has become synonymous with suffering. A vast, remote and poor region, Darfur has been torn by armed conflict and humanitarian crises, and haunted by the spectres of ethnic cleansing and genocide. After it broke onto the international stage in 2004 and grew into one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, the Darfur conflict presented the international community with dramatic challenges. How could the international community stop the fighting in Darfur? How could it save lives and help the two million people displaced by the conflict? And how could the international community - or those who wanted to act - bring about peace in Darfur and at the same time ensure that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement for the wider war between 1983 and 2005 was implemented?Here, Richard Barltrop draws on original research inside and outside Sudan, including extensive interviews with Sudanese and others who have been involved in Sudan's conflicts, politics and peace talks since 1983 and before, and official Sudanese and international sources. Tracing the history of international responses to the conflicts in Sudan, Barltrop investigates what determined the outcomes of international mediation and relief in Sudan. He shows that Darfur must be seen within the wider pattern of conflict in Sudan, and that both Sudan and the international community have missed opportunities to respond more effectively to the fundamental drivers of conflict in the country. As he explains, lessons should be drawn from this for Sudan and for the practice of conflict resolution elsewhere in the world today and in the future. This ground-breaking and insightful book offers crucial analysis for policymakers, mediators and humanitarian and development workers, as well as students and general readers who wish to deepen their understanding of Africa's largest country and the major political and humanitarian challenges it has posed for the international community.

The Darfur conflict has presented the international community with a number of challenges. How can the fighting be stopped in Darfur? What can be done to save lives and help the two million people displaced by the conflict? And how to help bring about peace, whilst ensuring that the peace agreement for the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983 - 2005) is implemented? Drawing on original research, and tracing the history of international responses to the conflicts in Sudan, Richard Barltrop investigates what has determined the outcomes of international mediation and relief in Sudan. In the process, he shows that Darfur must be seen within the wider context of conflict in Sudan, and that lessons should be drawn both for Sudan and for the effective practice of conflict resolution.