Sudan Today

Please join the Fares Center and the World Peace Foundation for a discussion and Q&A focused on the current situation in Sudan.

The speakers will be Alex de Waal and Mai Hassan.

Mai Hassan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Faculty Director of MIT-Africa. Her first book — Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya — was selected as a Best Book of 2020 by Foreign Affairs, won the American Political Science Association’s 2021 Robert A Dahl Award, and was the recipient of the African Studies Association 2021 Bethwell A. Ogot Award. Her research has been published in numerous outlets, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. She earned her PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Economics and Political & Social Thought at the University of Virginia.

Alex de Waal is a Research Professor at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and leads the WPF research programs on African Peacemaking and Mass Starvation. Considered one of the foremost experts on the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, pandemic disease, and conflict and peace-building. His latest book is New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives. He is also author of Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine and The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa (Polity Press, 2015).

Professor de Waal regularly teaches a course on Conflict in Africa at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.  During this course, students should gain a deeper understanding of the nature of contemporary violent conflict in Africa. Students will be expected to master the key theoretical approaches to violence in Africa, and to become familiar with a number of important case studies. The focus is on the origins and nature of violence, rather than policy responses and solutions. The course is inter-disciplinary and involves readings in political science, international relations, and social anthropology, while also touching on economics, environmental studies, and history.

This event is in person and available on Zoom.

Register for Zoom access here: https://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/excYSnO2Qv20zrRnTmuzcQ