When: Monday, November 14, 7:00 PM
Where: Loria Center, 190 York Street, Room 351
War has been hell for South Sudan’s people, but it has been very lucrative for the country’s leaders and commercial collaborators, South Sudan’s war profiteers. Perhaps two and a half to three million people have perished as a result of three wars in last 60 years. South Sudan’s history of conflict and mass atrocities is driven by unchecked greed. Ethnicity has been used as the main mobilizer for organized violence. The ultimate prize is control of a kleptocratic, winner-take-all state whose institutions have been hijacked by officials and their commercial collaborators for the purposes of self-enrichment and brutal repression of dissent. Corruption isn’t an anomaly within the system; it becomes the system itself, the very purpose of the state.
Sponsored by Genocide Studies Program at the MacMillan Center, Yale University and the Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School
With the Generous Support of the Charles E. Scheidt Family Fund