GDI Lecture: Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war
| Dates: | 25 November 2025 |
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| Times: | 16:30 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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Speaker: Sharath Srinivasan
Professor Sharath Srinivasan is the David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a scholar of contentious politics in Africa in global perspective, whose work has evolved from explaining failed peace interventions in civil wars to rethinking democratic politics in a digital age.
He is Founding Director, and currently Co-Director, of the University of Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR). CGHR is multi-disciplinary and outward-looking, with the explicit goal of influencing policy and practice through innovative and critically constructive research.
Sharath is also a Trustee and Vice-President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (British Academy); a Trustee, Deputy-Chair and an elected Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute (2023-); Co-founder and Trustee of Africa's Voices Foundation; and previously Executive Committee member of the Society for the Study of the Sudans in the UK.
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