Events about Darfur
17 May 2010
Seminar on 27/28 May and public film screening on 27 May
Darfur: Assessing the Assessments
27 & 28 May, Samuel Alexander Building, LG12
Free academic seminar open to all students, academics, aid workers, campaigners
The ‘iconic’ status of Darfur raises important questions for how local, regional, national and international forces intersect to produce knowledge about complex events. Assessments of the Darfur crisis have been used to demand humanitarian intervention, to defend inaction, to campaign for legal redress and to justify political, social and military interventions. This seminar seeks, in a multi-disciplinary manner, to assess the assessments.
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Public film screening: "Darfur Diaries: Message from Home"
27 May, St Peter's Chaplaincy
In October 2004, three activists snuck across the Sudanese border into rebel-held territory to document the atrocities in Darfur. They returned with some of the first footage exposing the massive war crimes being perpetrated by the Sudanese government.
"The Darfuri men and women you meet in this film bear testimony to grave abuses of human rights, yet they maintain hope, strength, resilience. Darfur Diaries: Message from Home is a powerful reminder of the high price people pay when their own government sanctions mass killing, displacement and destruction, and the world waits years to intervene. Watch this film and wait no longer."
Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International, USA
We will be screening Darfur Diaries: Message from Home and will hold a post-film discussion - see programme:
This event will take place at 6pm on Thursday 27 May in St Peter’s House Chaplaincy, Oxford Road, Manchester.
Feel free to bring along friends and family.
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