Friday, April 107:30 PM at the Berkeley City Club/$10 ($5 students) at the door2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeleypresented by Berkeley Arts & LettersMAHMOOD MAMDANISaviors and Survivors:  Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror  From the author of the highly praised Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, here is the first analysis of the crisis in Darfur that considers the events of the last few years within the broad context of the history of Sudan, as well as examines the efficacy of the world’s response to the crisis. Illuminating the deeply rooted causes of the current conflict, Mahmood Mamdani explains how it began as a civil war (1987-89) triggered by a severe drought, its effects shaped by the way British colonial officials had tribalized Darfur, dividing its population between “native” and “settler” tribes, thereby creating homelands for the former at the expense of the latter; how the war was reignited in the 1990s when the government tried to address this problem, unsuccessfully, by creating homelands for dispossessed tribes; how the involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two rebel movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific counterinsurgency but not genocide, as the West has declared. Mamdani explains, too, how the Cold War exacerbated the forty-year civil war in Chad, powerfully impacting upon neighboring Darfur. By 2003, the conflict involved national, regional, and global forces, including the powerful Western lobby calling for military involvement dressed up as “humanitarian intervention.” Incisive and authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur. Mahmood Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda. A political scientist and anthropologist, he is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His previous books include Citizen and Subject and When Victims Become Killers. In 2001 he presented one of the nine papers at the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium. He lives in New York City and Kampala with his wife and son.