Francis Deng

Francis Deng
Deng in 2011
Deng in 2011
Born1938 (age 85–86)
Abyei, Kurdofan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
OccupationWriter, diplomat, scholar
LanguageEnglish
Arabic
Dinka
EducationUniversity of Khartoum (LLB, LLM)
Yale University (JSD)
SubjectLaw, conflict resolution, human rights, anthropology, history, politics, novels
Notable awards2000 Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action
2005 Grawemeyer Award
2007 Merage Foundation American Dream Leadership Award
SpouseDorothy Anne Ludwig
Children4

Francis Mading Deng (born 1938) is a South Sudanese politician and diplomat.[1] He played an important role in advancing a Responsibility to Protect (R2P) when he was the UN's Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons (1992–2004).[2][3][4][5]

Educated as a lawyer, Deng was posted as Ambassador of Sudan to the United States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden over the period 1972 to 1976. From 1976 to 1980, he was Sudan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. After leaving Sudan's diplomatic service, he held several academic positions before becoming the United Nations' first Special Representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in 1992.[6]

He was newly independent South Sudan's first ambassador to the United Nations from 2012 to July 2016

  1. ^ "South Sudan names UN ambassador | IOL News". www.iol.co.za.
  2. ^ Twining, William, ed. (2009), "Francis Mading Deng", Human Rights, Southern Voices: Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi, Cambridge University Press, pp. 4–52, ISBN 978-0-521-11321-2
  3. ^ Bellamy, Alex J. (2009). "Realizing the Responsibility to Protect". International Studies Perspectives. 10 (2): 111–128. ISSN 1528-3577.
  4. ^ Mares, Gabriel (2024). "Recovering African contestation and innovation in global politics: Francis Deng and sovereignty-as-responsibility". International Theory. doi:10.1017/S1752971924000083. ISSN 1752-9719.
  5. ^ Bode, Ingvild (2014). "Francis Deng and the Concern for Internally Displaced Persons: Intellectual Leadership in the United Nations". Global Governance. 20 (2): 277–295. ISSN 1075-2846.
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