How Can Sudan Be Saved? A Panel Discussion
Thursday, 08 Feb 2007 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
This panel will feature Abdalaziz Adam Alhilu, a former member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Leadership Council, former Deputy Secretary General of SPLM for Northern Sudan Sector, former governor of Nuba Mountains state, and former commander in the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Other panelists include Anwar Elnor, president of the Darfur People's Association, and Rev. Russell Melby, director of the Iowa chapter of the Church World Service/CROP, a cooperative ministry of thirty-five Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations working to eradicate hunger and poverty and providing sustainable self-help and development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance in some eighty countries. Moderated by Mary Barratt, faculty advisor to the ISU South Sudanese Student Organization and an instructor in the Intensive English Orientation Program. Barratt recently traveled to South Sudan as part of the ISU project "Women's Lives in Fragile Contexts: South Sudan." Part of the World Affairs Series.Cosponsored By:
- Student Union Board
- World Affairs
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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