Event Description
Join Sudanese experts on July 6 at 12:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm Khartoum time for an expert roundtable on recent developments in Sudan regarding the civil conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces and the priority issues to be addressed within the country.
Civil war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and a rival paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15, 2023. As a result, Sudan finds itself on a challenging path towards peace and democracy. Hundreds have tragically lost their lives, hundreds of thousands have been compelled to seek refuge elsewhere, and millions urgently require humanitarian assistance.
An unwillingness to adhere to even a series of temporary ceasefires has prompted the US and Saudi Arabia to suspend even those minimal efforts to bring peace back to Sudan.
What happens now, and how can Sudan be returned to the path of peace?
Join our Sudanese experts, many of whom were in Sudan when the conflict erupted, to discuss what can be done.
This is part of the PILPG Thought Leadership Initiative. The Initiative focuses on prominent international law and international affairs topics and organizes monthly expert roundtables to share expertise and reflections from our work on peace negotiations, post-conflict constitution drafting, and war crimes prosecution.
عن الحدث
تدعوكم مجموعة القانون الدولي والسياسات العامة للمشاركة في الحوار الفكري الذي يقوده خبراء سودانيون وذلك حول تطورات الصراع المسلح بين القوات المسلحة السودانية وقوات الدعم السريع، وما يتصل بذلك من قضايا ذات أولوية بالنسبة للسودان، مع تلمس وطرح الحلول الممكنة لهذا الصراع، وينعقد الحوار اسفيريا في 6 يوليو / تموز 2023م، الساعة 12:00 ظهراً بتوقيت شرق الولايات المتحدة، 6:00 مساءً بتوقيت الخرطوم.
بعد اندلاع الحرب بين القوات المسلحة السودانية وقوات الدعم السريع في 15 أبريل / نيسان 2023، تحطمت الآمال المتجهة نحو السلام والديمقراطية وتفاقم الوضع الإنساني مما أسفر عن مقتل المئات وإجبار الآلاف على الفرار من السودان.
أدى عدم الالتزام بسلسلة من وقف إطلاق النار المؤقت إلى خلق مستقبل غامض للمشهد السوداني، الأمر الذي ربما دفع الولايات المتحدة والمملكة العربية السعودية إلى تعليق حتى الجهود الضئيلة لإعادة السلام.
وهذا التطور يدفعنا للتساؤل: ما الذي سيحدث الآن، وكيف يمكن أن يعود السودان إلى طريق السلام؟
يأتي هذا الحدث في إطار مبادرة مجموعة القانون الدولي والسياسات العامة للقيادة الفكرية والتي تركز على قضايا القانون الدولي والشؤون الدولية وتنظم حوارات شهرية مع المعنيين الخبراء وتتيح لنا ايضا الفرصة لطرح الموضوع من خلال خبرتنا كمجموعة القانون الدولي والسياسات العامة في مفاوضات السلام وصياغة الدستور بعد النزاع ومحاكمة جرائم الإبادة الجماعية.
Speakers
Albaquir Alafif
Albaqir Alafif is the Director of the Al Khatim Adlan Centre for Enlightenment and Human Development, also known as KACE, an independent institution dedicated to promoting democracy and human rights in Sudan.
Mohammed H. al-Ta’ishi
Mohammed Hassan Osman al-Ta’ishi is a former member of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan - an eleven-member transitional council which acted as the collective Head of State in the aftermath of Sudan’s 2019 popular revolution. In that role, he made substantial contributions to the transitional government’s endeavors to restructure, reform, and democratize the Sudanese state. He was ex officio a member of the government’s Security and Defense Counsel and the Higher Council for Peace.
Among his many roles as a Member of the Sovereignty Council, Mohammed was the Chief Negotiator and main architect of the Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan, signed by the transitional government and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) in October 2020. He thereafter took on the role of Chair of the High Committee for Monitoring and Evaluating the Implementation of the Juba Peace Agreement (Darfur Track), as well as Chair of the Conference on Governance High Committee.
Prior to this, Mohammed worked at the Darfur Compensation Commission and the Darfur Reconstruction and Development Fund - two organizations established in accordance with the Abuja Peace Agreement (2006)’s aims of ending the conflict in Darfur.
He has authored a book chapter on the role of students in the political struggle in Sudan, and published numerous articles on various topics including immigration, demographic changes, peace and democratization in Sudan.
Suliman Baldo
Suliman Baldo is the founding director of Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker, a think tank dedicated to exposing and disrupting grand corruption in Sudan. Previously, he served as Senior Policy Advisor for The Sentry and The Enough Project (2016-2021). Between 2013 and 2016, Dr. Baldo directed Sudan Democracy First Group, an organization aiming to help bring about faster democratization and peace to the war-torn country. Baldo successively served as Senior Analyst at Human Rights Watch for the DRC and Horn of Africa (1995-2002), and as director for Africa at the International Crisis Group (ICG) (2002-06) and at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) (2006-13), where he oversaw six country programs that supported post-conflict transitions in Africa through justice and other institutional reforms. Throughout his career, Baldo volunteered his time as a human rights expert to different entities, including by serving as transitional justice Advisor to the Joint U.N. and African Union Mediation, Doha Darfur Peace Process (2010-2011,), as U.N. Independent Expert on the Human Rights Situation in Mali (2013-2018), and as Commissioner, U.N. Investigative Commission into Post-election Violence in Côte d’Ivoire in 2011. Baldo has lectured at the University of Khartoum and worked in the humanitarian sector, first as a volunteer and later professionally. Dr. Baldo holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Dijon in France and undergraduate degrees from the University of Khartoum.
Mohamed Elnu’man
Mohamed Elnu’man is a PILPG Senior Legal and Technical Advisor and a Former Senior Legal Advisor to the Minister at Sudan’s Ministry of Justice.
Salman M.A. Salman
Dr. Salman M.A. Salman is the Chair, University of Khartoum Council, Sudan.
He is a Distinguished Honorary Member, and Fellow, with the International Water Resources Association (IWRA); and editor of Brill Research Perspectives in International Water Law. He served as the World Bank Water Law Adviser (1994 – 2009), and was the co-director (together with Professor Laurence Boisson de Chazournes) of the Hague Academy session on Water Resources and International Law in 2001.
He is the co-recipient of the IWRA Crystal Drop Award (2017).
Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Salman worked as a Legal Officer with the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, Italy, and taught law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Khartoum in Sudan.
Dr. Salman earned his LLB from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and holds an LLM and JSD from Yale Law School. He has published widely in the field of water law and policy. www.salmanmasalman.org
MODERATOR
Dr. Paul R. Williams
Dr. Paul R. Williams holds the Rebecca I. Grazier Professorship in Law and International Relations at American University where he teaches in the School of International Service and at the Washington College of Law. Dr. Williams is also the co-founder of the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), a pro bono law firm providing legal assistance to states and governments involved in peace negotiations, post-conflict constitution drafting, and the prosecution of war criminals. As a world renowned peace negotiation lawyer, Dr. Williams has assisted over two dozen parties in major international peace negotiations and has advised numerous parties on the drafting and implementation of post-conflict constitutions. Several of Dr. Williams' pro bono government clients throughout the world joined together to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr. Williams has served as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as an Attorney-Adviser for European and Canadian affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Williams is a sought-after international law and policy expert. He is frequently interviewed by major print and broadcast media and regularly contributes op-eds to major newspapers. Dr. Williams has authored six books on various topics concerning international law, and has published over three dozen scholarly articles on topics of international law and policy. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on a number of occasions relating to specific peace processes, transitional justice, and self-determination. Dr. Williams is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and has served as a Counsellor on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. In 2019, Paul was awarded the Cox International Law Center's Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice. More information about Dr. Williams can be found at www.drpaulrwilliams.com.