Expertise
Africa; conflict management and resolution; human rights; internal displacement; regional conflicts; Sudan; U.S.-Africa relations
Background
Current Positions
Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide
Past Positions
Served as Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons (1994-2004); Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Affairs Graduate Center, City University of New York; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan (1976-1980); Sudanese Ambassador to the United States, to Scandinavia, and to Canada; Human Rights Officer, Division of Human Rights, U.N. Secretariat (1967-71); Guest Scholar and Senior Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson Center; Distinguished Fellow, Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Jennings Randolph Distinguished Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace
Education
J.S.D. (1968), LL.M. (1965) Yale Law School; LL.B., Khartoum University, 1962