Newswise — Samuel Totten, an internationally known genocide scholar and author and editor of numerous books about genocide, is available to comment on the new Obama administration's policy in Sudan.
Totten has investigated the continuing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. He interviewed refugees in camps along the Chad/Darfur border as part of a U.S. State Department atrocities investigation team in 2004. The team's findings resulted in then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell reporting to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that genocide was being committed in Darfur.
Totten, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Arkansas, is the Ida King Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Totten spent six months in Rwanda last year on a Fulbright Fellowship to develop a genocide studies program at the National University of Rwanda. He taught in the program this spring and dispatches he wrote about the experience can be found at http://coehp.uark.edu/rwanda.htm.
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