first ambassador to the United Nations. Deng is a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis to establish the world’s first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. He has authored and edited 40 books in the fields of law, conflict resolution, internal displacement, human rights, anthropology, folklore, history and politics and has also written two novels on the theme of the crisis of national identity in Sudan. He was born in 1938 and in 1972 married Dorothy Anne Ludwig, with whom he has four sons, Donald, Daniel, David and Dennis. Selected publications Bound by Conflict: Dilemmas of the Two Sudans (International Humanitarian Affairs. with Kevin M. Cahill M.D. (FUP)) (1 March 2016) Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa Now (1, 2008) Talking it Out: Stories in Negotiating Human Relations (Kegan Paul, 2006) A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement, with I. William Zartman (2002) African Reckoning: A Quest for Good Governance, co-editor with Terrence Lyons (1998) Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement, with Roberta Cohen (1998) The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced, co-editor with Roberta Cohen (1998) Seed of Redemption, 1986? War of Visions: Conflicting Identities in the Sudan (1995) Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. with Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (1990) Cry of the Owl (Lilian Barber Press, Inc., 1989) Tradition and Modernization: A Challenge for Law Among the Dinka of the Sudan (1987) Dinka Folktales: African Stories from the Sudan (June 1984) Dinka Cosmology (Sudan studies) (1980) Dynamics of identification: a basis for national integration in the Sudan (1973) The Dinka and their songs (1973) The Dinka of the Sudan (1972, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc.; 1984, reissued with changes by Waveland Press Inc.) References External links The Biography of Francis Deng, UN. Profile — United Nations Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide 1938 births Living people Yale Law School alumni Alumni of King's College London Johns Hopkins University faculty South Sudanese officials of the United Nations South Sudanese Africanists Government ministers of Sudan Ambassadors of South Sudan to Canada Ambassadors of Sudan to Canada Place of birth missing (living people) University of Khartoum alumni Ambassadors of Sudan to the United States Ambassadors of Sudan to Denmark Ambassadors of