Mali -- Resources on the 2012-2013 Conflict
The Center of African Studies is hosting a roundtable on the conflict in Mali at 2:00 PM on 1 February, 2013. More details are here: Events Calendar.
To complement this event, we created this list of resources to faciliate discussions and research on the conflict underway in Mali. It includes the following sections:
- Recent Scholarship
- Wikipedia, Fact Sheets, Congressional Hearings
- Blogs
- Media and Journalism
- Background, Statistics and Data Visualization
- How to Help: Humanitarian Efforts
- Further Research
Please send suggestions for additions to asc@berkeley.edu.
Download a PDF of an earlier version of this here.
- Bingen, R. James, David Robinson, and John M Staatz. 2000. Democracy and development in Mali. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
- Gomez-Perez, Muriel. 2012. “Political Islam in West Africa from the 1980s to the Present.” In Whatever Happened to the Islamists?: Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims and the Lure of Consumerist Islam, ed. Olivier Roy and Amel Boubekeur. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Gutelius, David. 2007. “Islam in Northern Mali and the War on Terror.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 25 (1): 59–76. doi:10.1080/02589000601157063.
- Hall, Bruce S. 2011. A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Le Vine, V. 2007. “Mali: Accommodation or Coexistence?” In Political Islam in West Africa : state-society relations transformed, ed. William F. S Miles. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers.
- Lecocq, Jean Sebastian. 2010. Disputed desert decolonisation, competing nationalisms and Tuareg rebellions in northern Mali. Leiden; Boston: Brill. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10424619.
- McGovern, Mike. 2009. “Chasing Shadows in the Dunes: Islamist Practice and Counterterrorist Policy in West Africa’s Sahara-Sahel Zone.” In Securing Africa post-9/11 discourses on terrorism, ed. Malinda Smith, 79–98. Farnham; Burlington, VT: Ashgate. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10362166.
- Sidibé, Kalilou. 2012. Security Management in Northern Mali: Criminal Networks and Conflict Resolution Mechanisms. Institute of Development Studies.
- Sidibé, Kalilou. 2012. “Criminal Networks and Conflict-resolution Mechanisms in Northern Mali*.” IDS Bulletin 43 (4): 74–88. doi:10.1111/j.1759-5436.2012.00336.x.
- Soares, Benjamin F. 2007. “Islam in Mali in the Neoliberal Era.” In Islam and Muslim politics in Africa, ed. Benjamin F Soares and René Otayek, 211–226. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9780230607101.
- Soares, Benjamin. 2012. “On the recent mess in Mali.” Anthropology today 28 (5): 1–2.
*Subscriptions may be required to access some of the above materials. Check with your local library. If you do not have access through your library, you may be able to access materials through an interlibrary loan. Also see the OCLC site.
Wikipedia, Internet Guides, Fact Sheets, Congressional Hearings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Mali_conflict_%282012%E2%80%93present%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Mali
Karen Fung’s African South of the Sahara: Mali internet guide: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/mali.html
- Arieff, Alexis, Kelly Johnson, and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. 2012. “Crisis in Mali.” http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42664.pdf.
- Boyle, Ashley S. 2012. “Mali timeline and factsheet.” American Security Project. http://americansecurityproject.org/ASP%20Reports/Ref%200099%20-%20Mali%20-%20timeline%20and%20factsheet.pdf.
- Committee on African Studies, Harvard University, 2012, Mali Crisis Resources and Timeline, http://africa.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Mali-Crisis-Resources-and-Timeline.pdf
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health. 2012. “The Tuareg revolt and the Mali coup hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, June 29, 2012.” http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo30982.
Blogs, Facebooks groups and Twitter streams
- Americans and Friends in Mali: https://www.facebook.com/groups/224494404308242/
- Bruce Whitehouse: http://bridgesfrombamako.com/
- Gregory Mann: http://africasacountry.com/author/manngregory/
- Peter Tinti: http://ptinti.com/
- The Moor Next Door: http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/
- Mali Jamana: Mali after the Coup http://www.malijamana.com/
Postings from Spring 2012 include timelines - Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Mali
Media and Journalism
From Mali:
- ORTM: Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision du Mali
- Info Matin: http://www.info-matin.com/
- Mali Web: http://www.maliweb.net/
- Malidounda: http://www.malikounda.com/index.php
- Africa South of the Sahara list of sources for news, including news sites from Mali
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/mali/malinews.html
Al-Jazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/01/20131139522812326.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/Services/Search/?q=mali
AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/mali/
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=Mali
CBC (including interactive map)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/mali/
Christian Science Monitor:
http://www.csmonitor.com/content/search?SearchText=Mali
France24
http://www.france24.com/en/category/tags-pour-les-articles/mali (English)
http://www.france24.com/fr/category/tags-pour-les-articles/mali (French)
http://www.france24.com/en/files/element_multimedia/image/Mali%20map%20EN.jpg (map)
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/15/mali-crisis-development-failures-military-aid
IRIN: humanitarian news and analysis
http://www.irinnews.org/Country/ML/Mali
Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/mali/
Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
Philippe Leymarie. January 2013. “Mali, a country divided.” http://mondediplo.com/2013/01/04mali.
http://mondediplo.com/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=Mali&ordonne=date.
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/mali/index.html?8qa
Vicki Huddleston, Former US Ambassador to Mali, Op-Ed
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/opinion/why-we-must-help-save-mali.html
Adam Nossiter’s articles on Mali
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/adam_nossiter/index.html
NPR: National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/search/index.php?searchinput=Mali
NPR/Fresh Air interview with Adam Nossiter, the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/03/168483341/northern-mali-a-violent-islamist-stronghold
RFI: Radio France Internationale
http://www.rfi.fr/search/sinequa_search/Mali
Background, Statistics and Data Visualization
- Measure DHS Mali: Basic demographic, health and population information
http://www.measuredhs.com/Where-We-Work/Country-Main.cfm?ctry_id=25&c=Mali&Country=Mali&cn=&r=1
- WHO: http://www.who.int/countries/mli/en/
- FAO: http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index/en/?lang=en&iso3=MLI
- World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/mali
- FEWS NET: http://www.fews.net/Pages/country.aspx?gb=ml&l=en
- Google Public Data Explorer: UN Human Development Reports;
Look up other stats and use other datasets: http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
- CIA Fact Book: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ml.html
How to Help: Humanitarian Efforts
- Coordinated relief: http://mali.humanitarianresponse.info/
- Reliefweb from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
http://reliefweb.int/country/mli
- UN Commission on Refugees: http://data.unhcr.org/MaliSituation/regional.php
Donate for UNHCR efforts working for Malian refugees in neighboring countries:
http://donate.unhcr.org/
- International Committee of the Red Cross (working in the north of Mali):
http://www.icrc.org/eng/donations/index.jsp
- International Federation of the Red Cross/Red Crescent (working in the south of Mali,
with general Sahel food shortages):
http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/where-we-work/africa/mali-red-cross/
and https://www.ifrc.org/en/get-involved/donate/
- The NEF:http://www.neareast.org/wherewework/Mali
- Save the Children:
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6150453/k.B24A/Mali.htm - World Food Programme: http://www.wfp.org/countries/mali
Further Research: Library (World Cat) Selected Subject Headings
· Coups d'état -- Mali.
· Democracy -- Mali -- History -- 20th century.
· Democracy -- Mali -- History -- Case studies.
· Democracy -- Mali.
· Economic assistance, American -- Mali.
· Human rights -- Mali.
· Mali -- Economic conditions.
· Mali -- Foreign relations -- United States.
· Mali -- Politics and government -- 1968-1991.
· Mali -- Politics and government -- 1991-
· Mali -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
· Mali -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
· Mali -- Social conditions.
· Political stability -- Mali.
· Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
· Revolutions -- Mali.
· Terrorism -- Mali.
· United States -- Foreign relations -- Mali.
· Islam and politics -- Africa, West.
Compiled by M Saavedra. Thanks to Yacine Kouyate (Berkeley), Jason Schultz (Library, UC Berkeley), Jennifer Yanco (West African Research Association), Stephen Wooten (University of Oregon), Barbara Anderson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Anastasia Shown (University of Pennsylvania), Maria Grosz-Ngaté (University of Indiana, Bloomington), Elise Noel (Harvard University) and the ASA Outreach Council for suggesting resources.
A PDF version of this is here.
updated: 24 January, 2013