Events Planning Committee: This committee is responsible for planning and executing all of SUDAN’s events held on campus. Past events have included benefit performances, teach-ins, guest speakers, film showings, and weekly vigils, as well as nation-wide events proposed by STAND such as the Darfur Fast and the National Call-In Day. Leadership opportunities are open for those interested in the areas of campus outreach and publicity. Events Planning is always looking for enthusiastic people with new and creative ideas for events on campus that would broaden the awareness of the genocide in Darfur, and provide students with the opportunity to influence the efforts of our government and the global community.

Meetings: Monday, 8:30, First Floor Murphy

Community Outreach Committee: This committee focuses on establishing and maintaining contacts with community groups, particularly religious and civic organizations. We cooperate with the Events Planning Committee to host speakers and events as well as encouraging community groups to plan their own events. Our goal is to raise awareness of the situation in Darfur and encourage activism off the UNC campus. There are many opportunities for leadership in this community and is always looking for innovative ideas.

Meetings: Monday, 8:30, First Floor Murphy

K-12 Outreach Committee: K-12 Outreach is an educational outreach committee directed towards spreading awareness in NC schools. Our primary goal is to spread awareness about the situation in Darfur and information about our organization to area middle and high schools. We give interactive presentations with the goal of empowering young people to act to fight genocide.

Meetings: Thursday, 7:00, First Floor Murphy

Divestment Committee: This is a small committee that looks at working primarily at the University level, but also with NC State and other Universities around North Carolina, in order to divest from the Sudanese central government. Money flowing into the Sudanese government, especially from oil, plays a big part in funding groups like the Janjaweed and ultimately perpetuates the genocide in Darfur. Divestment was shown to work in South Africa, and Sudan has a history of being susceptible to economic pressure. We are hoping that by using a method of Target Divestment, which makes great effort to distinguish offending companies in Sudan from those who are neutral or beneficial to the civilian population, we hope to target another side to the genocide in Darfur in order to help bring it to a halt.

Contact information for all committee coordinators as well as other board members, can be found here.