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SALEM, MASS. – Genocide and famine have returned to Sudan once more. An event at Salem State University next week will explore how, and what the world might consider doing differently to address this crisis in 2025.
A lecture titled Genocide and Famine in Sudan: What’s New? What’s to be Done? will run out of the Petrowski Room in Marsh Hall on Monday, April 14 from 7 to 8:30 pm. The event will host Alex de Waal, DPhil, an internationally recognized expert on Sudan, research professor and executive director of The World Peace Foundation at Tufts University.
“When discussing genocide, people often ask, ‘why didn’t the world do more to intervene, to stop it from happening?’ But as we speak, we have an undeniable ongoing genocide, famine, and human rights catastrophe in South Sudan, and we do nothing about it,” said Christopher Mauriello, director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State. “Unfortunately, in the USA and in many places around the world, news and issues about the African continent go unreported or do not get the attention they deserve from university academic forums.”
This forum will examine the latest civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan and explore evidence of genocide and famine.
“The CHGS and its co-sponsoring organizations, including the political science and policy departments at both SSU and Endicott College, were particularly interested in bringing Alex de Waal to up to the North Shore for this important campus and community discussion of the crises happening in South Sudan,” Mauriello said.
The event is supported by a network of academic partners at two North Shore higher education institutions. It’s sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State and co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and Politics, Policy and International Relations both at SSU, and the Political Science Department at Endicott College.
The event will take place on the second-floor Petrowski Room in Marsh Hall on Harrington Campus on Monday, April 14, from 7 to 8:30 pm. Please register in advance to attend this talk in person or to view this talk on Zoom.