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Lecture: "Darfur and the Wars in Sudan: Oil, Ethnicity, Religion, the Desert, and the Limits of International Intervention"

June 30, 2008
On Wednesday, June 4, the lecture "Darfur and the Wars in Sudan: Oil, Ethnicity, Religion, the Desert, and the Limits of International Intervention" took place in the Auditorium of the School of Management and Social Sciences. The event was organized by the Department of International Studies and was presented by Máximo Halty, Director of the United Nations Strategic Planning Information Systems Program in Sudan.

Halty has served as a consultant for various international organizations in more than 40 countries. As a consultant for the IDB, the World Bank, USAID, and IDRC, he has worked on issues related to the development of micro and small enterprises in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guyana, El Salvador, Guatemala, Santo Domingo, Jamaica, Mexico, and Ukraine. Since 1993, he has worked with the IOM and UNDP on the development and management of post-conflict programs, primarily focusing on the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of former combatants, as well as the reduction of armed violence. He designed and directed such programs in Mozambique, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Somalia, the Solomon Islands, Macedonia, and Sudan, and worked as a consultant in Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Ivory Coast, the Comoros, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Colombia, and Iraq.