A Future Peace or the Road to Future Conflict? Making Sense of Sudan’s Impending Partition
In January 2011, the people of the southern provinces of Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare the independence of South Sudan from the North. The referendum was the culmination of an armistice in the longest-running civil conflict in Africa, between the Sudanese government seated in Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) of the South. At the moment, the overriding question that is of concern to all Sudanese, as well as the international community, is having failed to build unity out of diversity, will the emergence of two new nation-states in the Horn of Africa result in a more durable peace, or plunge the region into a new round of civil conflict?
With a panel discussion with Mr. Edward Thomas, Dr. Elsadig Abunafeesa and Dr. Marie-Joelle Zahar. Dr. Philip Oxhorn, Moderator and Dr. Khalid Medani, discussant.
Keynote address by Dr Nureldin Satti.
Reception to follow.