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DESCRIPTION:This panel brings to light the hidden and often overlooked atro
 cities unfolding in Sudan amid the violent clash between the Rapid Support
  Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese military. The discussion will address wides
 pread ethnic cleansing\, mass rapes\, and other grave human rights violati
 ons. Featuring African Studies scholar Christopher Tounsel\, who will prov
 ide a scholarly analysis on the issue’s historical context\, and Laetiti
 a Bader\, the Horn of Africa Director from Human Rights Watch—part of th
 e team that recently issued a comprehensive report on these abuses—the p
 anel will explore the complexities of documenting such crimes and the inte
 rnational community’s ongoing silence\, as well as the potential for the
  right response. Join us as we confront these unseen crimes and the ongoin
 g humanitarian crisis they continue to fuel.\n\nPanelists:\n\nChristopher 
 Tounsel is an historian of modern Sudan\, with special focus on race and r
 eligion as political technologies. His first book\, Chosen Peoples: Christ
 ianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan\, published with Duke Univ
 ersity Press in 2021\, explores the ways that Southern Sudanese intellectu
 als used Judeo-Christian Scriptures to frame their revolutionary work agai
 nst the Sudanese state. His second book\, Bounds of Blackness: African Ame
 ricans\, Sudan\, and the Politics of Solidarity (Cornell University Press\
 , 2024)unpacks the vacillating approaches that African Americans have take
 n to the Sudanese state and its multiethnic populace through periods defin
 ed by colonialism\, postcolonial civil wars\, genocide in Darfur\, and Sou
 th Sudanese independence. Dr. Tounsel's articles have appeared in journals
  including the Journal of Religious History\, Journal of African American 
 History\, Journal of Eastern African Studies\, and Journal of Africana Rel
 igions.\n\nIn addition to his research\, Professor Tounsel has provided co
 mmentary on current events in Sudan and South Sudan for outlets including 
 the BBC\, Al Jazeera\, Human Rights Watch\, and NPR's Throughline.\n\nLaet
 itia Bader Laetitia Bader is a deputy director in the Africa division at H
 uman Rights Watch supervising the work on the Horn of Africa and the Sudan
 s. She has worked for over a decade at the organization\, where she has in
 vestigated conflict related abuses\, including abuses against children\, i
 nternally displaced persons in Somalia and sexual exploitation and abuse b
 y the AU peacesupport forces there\, and focused on issues of political re
 pression\, including mistreatment of political detainees\, and in recent y
 ears supported conflict related work on both Sudan and Ethiopia. Before jo
 ining Human Rights Watch she worked on the rights of human rights defender
 s in the East and Horn of Africa region and worked at the United Nations H
 igh Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Uganda. She holds a master’s in i
 nternational affairs from Columbia University’s School of International 
 and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Sciences-Po in Paris\, specializing in human
  rights\, and holds a bachelor’s in history from University College Lond
 on (UCL). She is bilingual in French and English\, and speaks Italian.
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SUMMARY:Silent Crimes: Atrocities in Sudan and the International Response |
  Panel 
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