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SUMMARY:Understanding the Conflict in Sudan
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nFor more than two years\, Sudan has been in the throes of
  a violent civil war following attempted civil-military rule. Fighting has
  been intense between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
 \, a paramilitary group with origins in the Janjaweed militia that was pre
 viously accused of atrocities in the war-ravaged Darfur region.\n\nThe war
  has been taking on a new dimension as additional actors have appeared on 
 the geopolitical scene. Countries such as Egypt\, Turkey\, Iran\, Qatar\, 
 Russia\, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have all been accused of suppo
 rting one side or the other of the conflict depending on their strategic i
 nterests. Join Perry World House as we seek to explain some of the backgro
 und of this entrenched conflict\, who the key players are and what are the
 ir motivations in Sudan\, and what we expect to see in the short-\, medium
 -\, and long-term.\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS\nAli B. Ali-Dinar is a Senior Lect
 urer at the Department of Africana Studies. Dr. Dinar obtained his B.A. an
 d M.A. from University of Khartoum\, Sudan\, and his Ph.D. in Folklore and
  Folklife from University of Pennsylvania.\n\nHis research interests inclu
 de Sudanese popular culture\, the politics of identity\, and the history o
 f colonial and post-colonial Africa. Among the courses he taught are: "Afr
 ican Conflicts"\, "Sudanese Arabic I\, II"\, "Reading Historical Arabic Ma
 nuscripts"\, "The Darfur Conflict"\, "Sudan Civil Wars"\, "Dress and Mater
 ial Culture."\n\nHis publications include: "Historical Perspective on Darf
 ur Geopolitical Status in the Context of Modern Sudan "\, in Darfur Politi
 cal Economy: A Quest for Development\, Hamid Eltgani Ali (ed)\, forthcomin
 g 2011\, "The Darfur Conflict: A Natural Process or War by Design?"\, in: 
 Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader\, Salah M.
  Hassan &amp\; Carina E. Ray (Eds.)\, Cornell University Press\, 2009.\n\n
 Mark Malloch-Brown has had a long career in international affairs\, devel
 opment\, business\, and communications. At the United Nations\, Mark Mallo
 ch-Brown led the global promotion of the UN Millennium Development Goals a
 s head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP). At the UNDP\, and previousl
 y as vice president of external affairs at the World Bank\, he led reform 
 efforts to increase the impact of both organisations. He later served as K
 ofi Annan’s chief of staff\, and then as UN Deputy Secretary General\, b
 efore joining the British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown\, as m
 inister responsible for Africa and Asia from 2007 to 2009. Most recently\,
  he was president of the Open Society Foundations\, the world’s largest 
 private funder of independent groups working for justice\, democratic gove
 rnance\, and human rights. Mark Malloch-Brown is a Visiting Professor in P
 ractice at the London School of Economics (LSE)\, he was knighted for his 
 contributions to international affairs\, and is currently on leave from th
 e British House of Lords.\nMODERATOR\nMarie Harf comes to Penn with two de
 cades of varied experience in the U.S. federal government\, higher educati
 on\, media\, and politics. Previously she worked as senior advisor for str
 ategic communications to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and deputy spo
 kesperson for the U.S. Department of State\, as the foreign policy directo
 r on Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign\, and as a Middle East ana
 lyst and spokesperson at the Central Intelligence Agency. She has also hel
 d senior roles at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and 
 for Congressman Seth Moulton’s political organization. Since 2017\, Harf
  has been an on-air commentator for Fox News. She holds a bachelor’s deg
 ree in political science from Indiana University with concentrations in Je
 wish Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies\, and a master’s d
 egree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.\n\n\n
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