Hutton Honors College

From Darfur to Zimbabwe:
Human Rights and International Security
A Discussion Supper with International Security Expert
Sabelo Gumedze

Monday, Feb. 2, 2009 * 6-7:30 p.m. * Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St. * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

What is at stake in Darfur, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Nigeria, and elsewhere in Africa? With what impact on international security? With what consequences for human rights? What roles are China, the United States, the African Union, the United Nations, or others playing—for better or worse? Join South African international security expert Sabelo Gumedze for supper and a discussion of international security and human rights, with a focus on Africa.

Gumedze is a senior researcher at the Institute of Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa, and an attorney of the High Court of Swaziland. A former fellow at the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, Gumedze has also interned at the Refugee and Migrant Rights Project of Lawyers for Human Rights in Pretoria and at the Legal Office of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in Gambia. He has a graduate degree in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria, law degrees from the University of Swaziland, and a diploma in International Protection of Human Rights from Abo Akademi University in Finland. He has taught at the universities of Witwatersrand and of Limpopo in South African and served as a book review editor for the South African Journal on Human Rights. His current research is focused on the African Union and human rights.

On campus as a guest of the Center for the Study of Global Change, Gumedze will be giving a public talk on "Human Rights and International Security" (with a focus on Africa) on Wednesday, February 4, at 3:30 p.m. in the Distinguished Alumni Room of the IMU.

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