Abstract

A CGHR Panel Discussion on Sudan’s Tragedy: Popular Revolution to War, Famine, Genocide

This event examines Sudan’s descent into a horrific war that is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The war has displaced over 11 million people, involved the targeting of civilians, including especially women, and whole ethic groups in mass violence and other gross human rights violations. Mass displacement and destruction of livelihoods has precipitated a hunger crisis affecting more than 24 million people, 630,000 currently facing famine.

How, after a momentous civilian uprising in 2018-19 that toppled the dictator Omer el-Bashir after 30 years of authoritarian rule, did Sudan come to this? This panel seeks to unravelling the causes and events that led to the current tragedy, the current dynamics of the war and wider geopolitics, and how Sudanese have nevertheless sought to forge solidarity and resistance amidst all this, to keep the revolutionary spirit alive.

We are very excited to be hosting a distinguished expert panel of speakers for this event:

Raga Makawi – A Sudanese editor and researcher living in London, co-author of Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People’s Revolution (Hurst)

Matthew Benson – Sudans Research Programme Director | Conflict & Civicness Research Group (CCRG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Sharath Srinivasan – David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics, Co-Director of CGHR , author of When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans (Hurst)

The event will be held at Sidgwick Site, Alison Richards Building, Room S1. Don’t miss out on this important discussion!