دارفور: لقاء بمبني ريغان بواشنطون مع الأستاذة صفاء العاقب آدم و الأستاذ سليمان بلدو

دارفور: لقاء بمبني ريغان بواشنطون مع الأستاذة صفاء العاقب آدم و الأستاذ سليمان بلدو.

From: Howard Wolpe, Director, Africa Program and Leadership Project
and Hattie Babbitt, Director, The Initiative for Inclusive Security

Topic: Sudan Briefing: Next Steps in Darfur

With: Safaa Elagib Adam, Head of the Gender Experts Support Team to the
Abuja Negotiations; Secretary General of the Community Development
Association

And: Suliman Baldo, Director of Africa Program, International Crisis
Group

Moderator: Hattie Babbit, Director, Initiative for Inclusive Security

Date: Friday, May 5, 2006, 10:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. in the 5th Floor
Conference Room

Where: Ronald Reagan Building: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave., NW

The Africa Program and Leadership Project of the Wilson Center and The
Initiative for Inclusive Security are pleased invite you to a special
briefing on recent developments in Darfur. Safaa Elagib Adam of Darfur
will share her insights into the Darfur peace negotiations, including
why women's participation is critical to all efforts to resolve the
conflict. Suliman Baldo of the International Crisis Group will provide
analysis of the current situation and offer concrete recommendations for how
the international community should act to end the crisis and move the
peace process forward.

Safaa Elagib Adam is secretary general of the Community Development
Association, an NGO working to build peace in Darfur. She is also head of
the gender expert technical team advising the negotiating parties at
the Darfur peace negotiations in Abuja, Nigeria. She has attended
numerous regional and international fora on Darfur and Sudan, including the
Oslo Donor's Conference in 2005. Adam is a member of Inclusive Security's
Women Waging Peace network, a founding member of the Darfurian Forum
for Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence, and an active member of the Civil
Society Initiative for Peace Forum, the Darfur Conflict Advocacy Group,
and the Sudanese Women Empowerment for Peace and Development Network.
In 2005, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Suliman Baldo is the Africa Program Director at the International
Crisis Group, a position he moved to after two years of work as an
independent expert, providing advice on conflict situations in Central and
Eastern Africa. From 1995 to 2002, he was with Human Rights Watch as Senior
Researcher for the DRC and the Horn of Africa. In his native Sudan,
Baldo is widely known as a human rights and democracy activist. His career
there included lecturing at the University of Khartoum and directing
community-based development and management of humanitarian/emergency
assistance as a volunteer and eventual full-time employee with local
humanitarian groups. From 1988 to 1992 he served as field representative for
Oxfam America, managing its development and disaster relief programs
for the Horn of Africa region, and from 1992 to 1995 he was an
independent development consultant.

Please RSVP by e-mail to Julia Bennett at [email protected]

Shokran Ya Kostawi.... could someone briefe us on this Breifing?
regards

mohamed elgadi

Dear Mohamed
.I hope Mr. Adil Salih is around
He attended the meeting

However, I thing the following web site may have something about the meeting next week

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=2951&l=4


regards