{"id":4353,"date":"2012-12-04T03:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T03:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:02","slug":"carl-wilkens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2012\/12\/04\/carl-wilkens\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Wilkens on The Future of U.S. Policy Toward Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Carl Wilkens<\/strong> was the only American to remain in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. Venturing out each day into streets crackling with mortars and gunfire, he worked his way through roadblocks of angry, bloodstained soldiers and civilians armed with machetes and assault rifles to bring food, water and medicine to groups of orphans trapped around the city. His actions saved the lives of hundreds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4354 alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Carl Wilkens\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/Wilkens.jpg\" alt=\"Carl Wilkens\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Join activist Carl Wilkens, Professor Stephen O\u2019Connell, Professor Timothy Burke,  and STAND national student director  Mickey  Jackson  for  a  panel  discussion  on<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, December 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 7:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Science Center 101<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by STAND, Forum for Speech, The President\u2019s Office, The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, Department of Economics , Department of History, and Department of Sociology &amp; Anthropology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Wilkens was the only American to remain in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. Venturing out each day into streets crackling with mortars and gunfire, he worked his way through roadblocks of angry, bloodstained soldiers and civilians armed with machetes and assault rifles to bring food, water and medicine to groups of orphans trapped around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2012\/12\/04\/carl-wilkens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carl Wilkens on The Future of U.S. Policy Toward Africa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,57,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175424928,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/175424928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}