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Francis Deng is Research Professor of International Law, Politics and Society and the Director of the Center for Displacement Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.
A Sudanese national, he was educated in Sudan and the United States. He holds an LL.B. from Khartoum University and LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Yale University.
He was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan (1976-1980) and Sudanese ambassador to the United States, to Scandinavia, and to Canada. He is also former Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons (1994-2004). He was Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Affairs Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has also held positions as guest scholar or fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the United States Institute of Peace.
Selected publications
- Talking it Out: Stories in Negotiating Human Relations (Kegan Paul, 2006)
- A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement, with I. William Zartman (2002)
- African Reckoning: A Quest for Good Governance, co-editor with Terrence Lyons (1998)
- Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement, with Roberta Cohen (1998)
- The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced, co-editor with Roberta Cohen (1998)
- War of Visions: Conflicting Identities in the Sudan (1995)
- Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. with Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (1990)
- Cry of the Owl (Lilian Barber Press, Inc., 1989)
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