Former U.S. ambassadors to present “Genocide: What the world can do and should do”

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Former U.S. Ambassadors Robert Beecroft and Edward Brynn will speak about the Darfur genocide in the program, “Genocide: What the world can do and should do” Thursday at 7:30 p.m at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. Heavy student interest in Darfur generated the talk, said Jonathan Earle, interim director of the Dole Institue.

The former ambassadors will compare the Darfur situation to genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. Beecroft was the head of mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina from July 2001 to July 2004. Brynn was an ambassador to Burkina Faso from 1990 to 1993 and Ghana from 1995 to 1998.

Amanda Applegate, Wichita junior and member of the Dole Institute of Politics Student Advisory Board, said she wanted to know more about Darfur. Applegate said at past Dole Institute programs she would ask speakers for their opinions on Darfur. Applegate started the campus organization Fighting Ignorance of Global Humanitarian Threats when she was a freshman.

Applegate said students were heavily involved in the Darfur issue because they thought they could make an impact. She said the program on Thursday would give interested students a different view of the subject. Students would definitely walk away having learned something, she said.

“What students will see and hear at the program isn’t something they can see on the news at night,” Applegate said.

Barbara Ballard, associate director of outreach, said this generation of students was more involved in the humanitarian side of activism. She said students today looked at the world’s atrocities like Darfur and wanted to help.

Earle said students kept asking for more on Darfur. This was an issue the world community started to take interest in, but he said students were the initiating factor. Earle said the Darfur program would have a good turnout because it was a very timely international issue. The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Sudan Monday to evaluate possible implementation of a peace agreement in Darfur. Last month the Security Council sent police and soldiers to the region to protect Darfur civilians.

The program Thursday is free and open to everyone. Anyone interested in the event may contact the Dole Institute at (785)-864-4900.

—Edited by Rachael Gray

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