Talk with Nicholas Coughlan - South Sudan: Collapse of a Country

Union Club of British Columbia, 805 Gordon Street, Victoria, BC
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MQUP invites you to join author Nicholas Coghlan for a talk about his book, Collapse of a Country, for the Canadian International Council (CIC) in Victoria. 
Why did the newest country in the world – South Sudan – implode only two years after gaining its independence? In late 2013, Ambassador Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny were in the capital, Juba, when the city erupted in gunfire and civil war pitted one half of the army against the other. During his talk, former diplomat and author Nicholas Coghlan will describe the ebb and flow of the war, the humanitarian tragedy, the scramble to evacuate South-Sudanese Canadians from Juba, and the current, well-meant but often ill-conceived attempts of the international community to mitigate the misery and bring peace back to a land that has rarely known it.
Books will be available for sale at the event. 

This action-focused narrative, grounded by accounts of meetings with key leaders and travels throughout the dangerous, impoverished hinterland of South Sudan, explains what happened in December 2013 and why. Fast-paced and poignant, Collapse of a Country gives an insider’s glimpse into the chaos, violence, and ethnic conflicts that emerged out of a civil war that has been largely ignored by the West.
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Nicholas Coghlan, author of Far in the Waste Sudan and The Saddest Country, served in five Canadian embassies overseas before he was appointed Canada’s first resident ambassador to South Sudan. He lives on his sailboat in Canada’s Pacific Northwest.