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Negotiating Peace in Sudan
Friday October 29, 2004, 12:30-2:30pm
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall
John Chipman Gray room (2nd floor), Lunch *
Beyond addressing the current humanitarian crisis in Darfur, how can long-term peace and security be forged in Sudan? Join us for a year-long discussion series exploring Sudan’s interrelated conflicts and mediation efforts. Panelists will survey Sudan’s turbulent history, internal conflict dynamics, and the ongoing peace talks. Audience members interested in organizing future discussions and other opportunities to support comprehensive peace in Sudan are encouraged to attend a meeting immediately after the panel. Panelists will include:
§ Osama Abdelgadier, Framingham State College
§ Abdelbagi Abushanab, Darfur Rehabilitation Project
§ Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Tufts University
§ John Prendergast, International Crisis Group
§ Alex de Waal, Justice Africa
* RSVP [email protected] by 10/27 *
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on African Studies
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Negotiating Peace in Sudan Friday October 29, 2004
12:30 pm Lunch served
12:40 pm Susan Hackley – Welcome and Introductions
12:45 pm Osama Abdelgadier – Mapping Sudan’s history
1:00 pm Abdelbagi Abushanab – Living with conflict in Darfur
1:15 pm Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf – War, women, and displaced communities
1:30 pm John Prendergast – Parallel peace talks
1:45 pm Alex de Waal – Are conditions in place for peace?
2:00 pm Q/A
2:30 pm Discussion ends
2:45 pm Supporting Peace in Sudan
Susan Hackley is the Managing Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. PON is a university consortium dedicated to developing the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution, with students, faculty and associates from Harvard, MIT, Tufts, and other Boston-area schools.
Osama Abdelgadier is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Framingham State College. Previously he was a Visiting Scholar at Clark University and Assistant Professor at the University of Khartoum. Dr. Abdelgadier has conducted fieldwork in the Upper Nile, Darfur, Kordofan, Red Sea, Kassala, and Gedarif states. His publications include “Indigenous Crop Protection Strategies of Small Farmers in En-Nahud District, Western Sudan,” and “Migration and Rural Development in El-Obeid Area, Sudan.” He holds advanced degrees from the University of Khartoum and Clark University.
Abdelbagi Abushanab has been active in Darfurian advocacy for past twenty-five years. After receiving his Accounting degree from Comboni College, he worked in Khartoum. During this time, he became an active member of the ‘Club of Intellectuals from Darfur,’ which protested the systemic educational and career discrimination against Darfurians. In 1992 he was forced to leave for the US, where he has worked his way up from driving a taxi to owning a limousine business. Currently he is the President of the Darfur Rehabilitation Project, which aims to promote reconciliation and reconstruction throughout Darfur.
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is a visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and Fellow at Harvard’s Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. She has degrees from the University of Connecticut and Cairo University School of Economics and Political Science. She has written and edited numerous publications, including Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America, and Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives. She is completing a book on the relationship between Arabization, Islamization, and the gendered nature of the displacement experience of Southern Sudanese women in Khartoum.
John Prendergast is Special Advisor to the President at the International Crisis Group. Previously he was a Special Advisor at the U.S. State Department focusing on conflict resolution in Africa. He also was Director of African Affairs at the National Security Council. He has worked for a variety of think tanks, UN agencies and NGOs, including the U.S. Institute of Peace, Human Rights Watch, and UNICEF. He is the author of seven books on Africa, including ICG’s God, Oil, and Country: Changing the Logic of War in Sudan and Blood and Soil: Land, Politics, and Conflict Prevention in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Alex de Waal is Co-director of Justice Africa and a Fellow at Harvard’s Global Equity Initiative. After receiving his D. Phil. From Oxford University, he became an activist and author of several books on famine, human rights and conflict in Africa, including Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa and the soon to be republished Famine That Kills: Darfur, Sudan. He served as Associate Director of Africa Watch, Founder and Director of African Rights, Chairman of Mines Advisory Group (co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize), and Director of the United Nations’ Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance.
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Supporting Peace in Sudan Friday October 29, 2004
This meeting will feature different opportunities to support comprehensive peace in Sudan, including analyzing the parallel peace talks, helping Sudanese refugees in Boston, advocating for a more robust AU force in Darfur, and fundraising for relief and reconciliation projects in Sudan and Chad. Audience members will be encouraged to collaborate with the guest speakers and each other on follow-up activities and long-term strategies.
2:45 pm Introductions
Eric Berger – Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
2:50 pm Presentations
§ Jay Balasubramanian – Negotiating Peace in Sudan
§ Alex de Waal – Justice Africa
§ Daoud Saleh – Massaleit Community in Exile
§ Franco Majok – Southern Sudanese Solidarity Organization
§ Yahya Osman – Darfur Rehabilitation Project
§ Khalid Kodi and Arthur Anderson – Art for Darfur
§ Joanne Cipolla Moore – Save Darfur Coalition
§ Jim Moore – Passion of the Present
§ Lisa Rogoff – US Holocaust Memorial Museum
§ Florinda Russo – Amnesty International
§ Krista Riddley – Oxfam America
3:45 pm Next steps
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