Francis M. Deng

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement

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An expert on conflict management and U.S.-Africa relations, Francis Deng served as Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons and is currently Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide.

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Expertise

  • Africa
  • conflict management and resolution
  • human rights
  • internal displacement
  • regional conflicts
  • Sudan
  • U.S.-Africa relations

Experience

Current Positions

  • United Nations Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide

Past Positions

  • Director of the Sudan Peace Support Project at the U.S. Institute of Peace (2006-2007)
  •  Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons (1994-2004)
  • 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)

Education

  • J.S.D. (1968), LL.M. (1965) Yale Law School
  • LL.B., Khartoum University, 1962

Language Fluency

  • Arabic

UN Experts Page

For more information on Francis Deng's role as a UN expert with the Project and his past mission reports and press releases, go to the UN Experts page.

United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

For more information on his role as Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, please go here.

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  • Masses in Flight

    The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement

    Francis M. Deng and Roberta Cohen

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