Darfur and Chad: Common Crisis or Separate Conflicts? April 10, 2008

Victor Tanner will present “Darfur and Chad: Common Crisis or Separate Conflicts?” on Thursday, April 10 from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Clark 309. This talk is sponsored by Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence and Case Center for Policy Studies.

Victor Tanner has worked with war-affected populations for 20 years, both as an aid worker and a researcher, in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans.

Since 2002, he has conducted extended field research on local conflict dynamics in Darfur, where he also worked and lived in 1988. His publications on Darfur include “Rule of Lawlessness,” an in-depth report on the roots and repercussions of the Darfur crisis (2005, available at www.sudanarchive.net); “Divided They Fall: The Fragmentation of Darfur’s Rebels” (2007, with Jérôme Tubiana, www.smallarmssurvey.org); and “Darfur After Abuja: A View from the Ground” (with Dr. Abdul-Jabbar Abdullah Fadul, in War in Darfur and the Search for Peace, Alex de Waal ed., Harvard University Press, 2007). He has also co-authored several studies on forced displacement in Iraq for the Brookings Institution.

Tanner is an adjunct member of faculty at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC.