Political Economy of Oil

Module Research Resources: Resource created by the Understanding Sudan project.

Background Information

• China and Sudan Factsheet 2007 Examines oil and other links between China and Sudan. Created in mid-2007.
• Oil in Sudan Fact Sheet 2003 Created by the Center for African Studies for a 2003 workshop on Human Rights and Oil.
• Oil in Sudan Fact Sheet 2006 Created in September 2006
• Links on Sudan with a focus on oil and human rights Prepared for a conference, Human Rights and Oil in Southeast Asia and Africa, 31 January 2003 at the University of California, Berkeley
• China Invests Heavily In Sudan's Oil Industry. By Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post Foreign Service, Thursday, December 23, 2004
• China, Africa, and Oil. Esther Pan, for the Council on Foreign Relations, January 26, 2007
• Google Timeline Result for "Sudan Petroleum". Produces a chronology based on news stories. Possible to drill down to years and months. For a different cut at the data, search on the terms "Sudan Oil".
• GOS Revenue, Oil and the Cost of the War. By Prof. Endre Stiansen, University of Oslo. Presented at the BICC/ECOS Conference "Money Makes the War go Round? The EU and transforming the economy of war in Sudan" Brussels, 12-13 June 2002
• Legal Remedies for the Resource Curse. The Justice Initiative of Open Society produced this report assessing the availability of legal remedies for addressing corrupt practices in the natural resource industries.
• Old habits die hard: Oil companies still oppress southern Sudanese after the return of peace Pambazuka feature on Oil in Sudan by Leben Nelson Moro, 1 August 2007.
• Post Referendum Arrangements for Sudan�s Oil Industry: How to Separate Siamese Twins From The European Coalition on Oil in Sudan, 28 February 2011.
• Rejuvenating or Restraining Civil War: The Role of External Actors in the War Economies of Sudan. Bonn International Center for Conversion, by Scott Lewis, 2004 paper 37
• Report of an Investigation into Oil Development, Conflict and Displacement in Western Upper Nile, Sudan October 2001, Commissioned by: Canadian Auto Workers, Union Steelworkers, Humanity Fund, The Simons Foundatio,n United Church of Canada, Division of World Outreach, World Vision Canada
• US Energy Information Agency, Sudan Page
• God, Oil and Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan Africa Report N°39, 28 January 2002 by The International Crisis Group (ICG)
• Sudan: Oil and Gas - Overview Mbendi Information Services
• Sudan: The Human Price of Oil. Amnesty International, 3 May 2000.
• The scorched earth: oil and war in Sudan. A report published by Christian Aid, 2001

Books for Teaching

• Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights. Human Rights Watch, September 2003

Latest Articles

• ECOS Factsheet: The Economy of Sudan's Oil Industry. October 2007. This 18 page factsheet from the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan has the latest information on the economy of Sudan's oil industry.

Research Networks

• Conference: Money Makes the War go Round? The EU and transforming the economy of war in Sudan Brussels, 12-13 June 2002, Co-organised by BICC and the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS).
• The European Coalition on Oil in Sudan A group of over 80 European organizations working for peace and justice in Sudan.