1. Francis Mading Deng was born on 1938 and is a South Sudanese politician and diplomat.
18 Facts About Francis Deng
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Francis Deng played an important role in advancing a Responsibility to Protect when he was the UN's Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons.
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Francis Deng was newly independent South Sudan's first ambassador to the United Nations from 2012 to July 2016.
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Francis Mading Deng was born near Abyei, Sudan in 1938.
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Francis Deng's father was Deng Majok, paramount chief of the Ngok Dinka, the largest tribe in Sudan.
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Under Sudanese presidents Ismail al-Azhari and Gaafar Nimeiry, Francis Deng served as Human Rights Officer at the United Nations Secretariat.
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Francis Deng went on leave in 1972, spending time as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and a lecturer in law al Columbia University.
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Francis Deng was Sudan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1976 to 1980.
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Francis Deng held several academic positions, mainly in the United States.
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From 1992 to 2004, Francis Deng served as the United Nations' first Special Representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons.
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From 2006 to 2007, Francis Deng served as director of the Sudan Peace Support Project based at the United States Institute of Peace.
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Francis Deng was a Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a research professor of international politics, law and society at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
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Francis Deng served at the Woodrow Wilson International Center first as a guest scholar and then as a senior research associate, after which he joined the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow, where he founded and directed the Africa Project for 12 years.
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Francis Deng was then appointed distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York before joining Johns Hopkins University.
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In 2000, Francis Deng received the Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action.
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Francis Deng has authored and edited 40 books in the fields of law, conflict resolution, internal displacement, human rights, anthropology, folklore, history and politics and has written two novels on the theme of the crisis of national identity in Sudan.
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Francis Deng married Dorothy Ann Ludwig in 1972 in the Church Center for the United Nations.
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Francis's son Daniel Deng operates a non-profit, KUSH, in South Sudan.