Apart from all fundamental, life-saving functions in the context of conflicts andhumanitarian catastrophes, refugee camps are performing a vital function in ourglobalized world. At a time, when humanitarian interventions areoccurring more and more often, when local conflicts are inscribed into a global matrix
of interests, refugee camps become the interface and access point for the activities ofthe developed world.
Almost all knowledge that we possess on the Darfur conflict, comes from the refugee camps in the east of Chad, their counterparts on the other sideof the boundary in Sudan, or the humanitarian organizations involved in those camps.