ABSTRACT
I arrived in my office the morning of June 24, 2004 to find a brief e-mail from my office director outlining a possible survey project involving Darfur — “about two hundred interviews, about ten days.” Three months later, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before Congress, holding the results of what began as a small documentation project, but evolved into a body of survey data representing the unique stories of over eleven hundred randomly selected Darfuri refugees. The data, Powell testified, supported his conclusion that genocide was being perpetrated in Darfur.
