"Summit on the Way Forward in Darfur and South Sudan:" Featured Speaker: Scott Gration, Maj Gen USAF (Ret), US Special Envoy to Sudan March 20, 2010

In a free public presentation, Scott Gration, Maj Gen USAF (Ret), President Obama's Special Envoy for Sudan, will be in Pittsburgh to discuss U.S. Policy in Sudan (including Darfur), joining with the Hon. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, Head of Mission of the Government of South Sudan, and retiring national Save Darfur President Jerry Fowler, fresh from a trip to Darfur and South Sudan.

General Gration is the point person for U.S Sudan policy. His appearance comes one month before critical elections and several months before a referendum on independence for the South which will shape Sudan's future -- and likely that of the millions of displaced persons from Darfur in the western part of the country -- for generations to come. Gen. Gration's visit is correlated with a "Summit on the Way Forward in Darfur and South Sudan," a national diaspora and activist conference organized by the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition (PDEC), in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon University, the Save Darfur Coalition, Global Solutions Pittsburgh and the Sudanese Community in Pittsburgh.

For further details on the free presentation or to register for working sessions of the conference ($50 fee), see http://www.pittsburghdarfur.org or call 412 992-0102

Opening Ceremonies for the conference will be held on Friday, March 19, 3-5 pm on the lawn at Carnegie Mellon University. Signs of 136 villages destroyed in South Sudan during the Civil War from 1983-2005 will be added to a display of signs of destroyed villages of Darfur.

Contact: David Rosenberg, info@pittsburghdarfur.org