Tigray – the prevention of genocide
A webinar - Apr 28, 2022 07:00 PM, London (via Zoom)
Tigray timeline:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:be4c0177-d28f-3aa7-8e37-deba7a82c8ed
As the world justifiably is turned toward war in Europe, we are in danger of failing to pay proper attention to a continuing African war. The bitter conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia engaging forces from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Amhara and their internal and foreign allies on the one hand, and the Tigray forces on the other, has been taking place since November 2020. With reports of widespread and systematic sexual violence, civilians massacres, mass arrests, hate speech and the prevention of humanitarian aid entering the region, there is a real fear that a genocide is already in progress.
This webinar aims to provide up to date information on the current situation and to deepen understanding of the underlying causes of the conflict. It will also examine the implications for the Horn of Africa and its wider relations, the role of the international community and ask what the UK can and should be doing in response.
Please register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nwdAkChvTsq7QLpSpF91gQ
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David Alton (The Rt.Hon Professor the Lord Alton of Liverpool) has served in both Houses of the UK Parliament. He serves on the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Select Committee and has published several books – the latest of which will appear shortly. It examines the crime of Genocide and the failure to bring perpetrators to justice. He draws on first-hand experience of visiting Burma, Darfur, Western China, Rwanda, Sudan, North Korea, Iraq and elsewhere. He is co chair of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Eritrea, North Korea and Pakistan Minorities and Vice Chair of the APPGs on Rohingya, Uyghurs, Hong Kong and Burma. He is a Visiting Professor at Liverpool Hope University. Full biography at www.davidalton.net @DavidAltonHL
Dr Sarah Vaughan is a social scientist who has worked in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa since the late 1980s, advising a series of governmental, multilateral, academic and non-governmental bodies. She was for 20 years an Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and has taught African politics and social theory in Scotland and Ethiopia. She works on a range of aspects of the political economy of Ethiopia and the region and is a co-author of The Culture of Power in Contemporary Ethiopian Political Life (Vaughan & Tronvoll, 2004, Sida) and Changing Rural Ethiopia: Community Transformations (Pankhurst, Bevan, Dom, Tiumellisan & Vaughan, eds, 2018, Tsehai).
