Darfur Conflict Summary
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In this article, Khan provides a brief summary of how environmental degradation was an important causal factor in beginning the Darfur conflict. She discusses how environmental factors are being downplayed as having a minute role in starting the violence currently occurring in Darfur and that the desertification of the region constitutes one of the root causes of the conflict. Khan also talks about the atrocities of the current conflict and how they can be linked to the desertification of the region forces a difficult situation upon the pastoral and nomadic societies of the area who have to fight over now scarce resources like water to survive. Finally, Khan discusses how the social collapse of Darfur based on these events