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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute and the Maxwell African Scholars Union p
resent Mai Hassan from MIT.Since April 2023\, the country of Sudan has bee
n embroiled in a struggle for power between two wings of its military appa
ratus\, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
. As a result of the hostilities\, tens of thousands have died. More than
9 million have been displaced. The United Nations says the war has created
the “world’s worst hunger crisis\,” with the World Food Programme citing
more than 25 million people as facing acute hunger. And the U.S. recently
declared that the brutal massacres and rape committed by the RSF amount to
genocide. \;Though the acute spark of this conflict was a military pu
rge\, its seeds were planted years prior\, during the country’s prior Isla
mist authoritarian regime and the subsequent popular revolution that overt
hrew it. \;After discussing the short- and long-term causes of the con
flict\, this talk will shift to its current trajectory and discuss potenti
al paths forward.Mai Hassan is an associate professor of political science
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the faculty direct
or of MIT-Africa. Her first book\, “Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bu
reaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya\,” was selected as a Best Boo
k of 2020 by Foreign Affairs\, won the American Political Science Associat
ion’s 2021 Robert A Dahl Award\, and was the recipient of the African Stud
ies Association 2021 Bethwell A. Ogot Award. Her on-going research focuses
on popular mobilization under autocratic repression with a focus on Sudan
’s 2018-19 popular uprising. She earned a Ph.D. in government from Harvard
University.
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SUMMARY:The War in Sudan: Origins and Trajectories
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Moynihan Institute and the Maxwell Afri
can Scholars Union present Mai Hassan from MIT.
Since April 202
3\, the country of Sudan has been embroiled in a struggle for power betwee
n two wings of its military apparatus\, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) an
d the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). As a result of the hostilities\, tens of
thousands have died. More than 9 million have been displaced. The United
Nations says the war has created the “world’s worst hunger crisis\,” with
the World Food Programme citing more than 25 million people as facing acut
e hunger. And the U.S. recently declared that the brutal massacres and rap
e committed by the RSF amount to genocide. \;
Though the
acute spark of this conflict was a military purge\, its seeds were planted
years prior\, during the country’s prior Islamist authoritarian regime an
d the subsequent popular revolution that overthrew it. \;<
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After discussing the short- and long-term causes of the conflic
t\, this talk will shift to its current trajectory and discuss potential p
aths forward.
Mai Hassan is an associat
e professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy (MIT) and the faculty director of MIT-Africa. Her first book\, “Regime
Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Ken
ya\,” was selected as a Best Book of 2020 by Foreign Affairs\, won the Ame
rican Political Science Association’s 2021 Robert A Dahl Award\, and was t
he recipient of the African Studies Association 2021 Bethwell A. Ogot Awar
d. Her on-going research focuses on popular mobilization under autocratic
repression with a focus on Sudan’s 2018-19 popular uprising. She earned a
Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.