Author Description

Product Description In this innovative and stimulating volume, Francis Deng outlines a new relationship between governments and societies―a relationship informed by Western concepts but based on traditional African values such as respect for human dignity, equality, and self-rule. About the Author Francis M. Deng is the UN secretary-general’s special adviser on the prevention of genocide. In 2002–2003, he was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. He served as Sudan’s minister of state foreign affairs, is the author or editor of more than thirty books, and holds a doctorate from Yale Law School.