From a Sudan to Another:
Political and Social
Restructuring Underway
Roundtable, Addis Ababa,
Conference Hall, Jupiter Hotel (Kazantchis) June 11 – 12, 2013
Presentation
The separation of the two Sudans in July 2011 created as many opportunities as it aroused difficulties and threats, therefore opening new research fields in Social Sciences. The resumption of tensions and confrontations between the North and the South in 2012 further complicated dialogues. Following the secession, euphoria in the South and acceptation in the North gave way to heavy political, economic and safety challenges.
The fields of analysis regarding political and social reshuffling are many, and for a majority of them, yet to study. The CEDEJ-Khartoum and the CFEE-Addis Ababa launched a scientific dialogue process on Sudans in June 2012. That work aimed at giving an academic content to the debate, which official talks often miss to address; and to convey discussions between Sudanese and South Sudanese scholars, more necessary than ever today. They decided to renew the initiative in 2013, in line with the works underway.
With the support of Fonds d’Alembert
Organizers :
Dr Agnès de Geoffroy, CEDEJ, Khartoum, adegeoffroy@gmail.com
Dr Jean François Breton, CFEE, Addis Ababa, direction@cfee.cnrs.fr
Contacts :
CEDEJ : Lorraine Etienne, etienne.lorraine@gmail.com CFEE : Jean-Gabriel Leturcq, leturcq@ehess.fr,
+251 (0)9 24 95 47 72
PROGRAMME
MONDAY 10 June
Asni Art Gallery, Addis Ababa
18:00 Opening of the photograph exhibition:
3 Borders / 3 Frontières By Jerôme Tubiana
TUESDAY 11 June
Jupiter Hotel, Conference Hall
8:30-10:00 Opening Session
8:30 Welcoming coffee –tea8:45 Welcoming address by the organizers – Objectives of the roundtable and presentation of the participants
9:15 Opening lecture by Gunnar Sørbø (Chr. Michelsen Institute)
"Sudan Divided: Challenges for Research”
9:45
Discussion
10:00 – 12:00 Roundtable discussion 1: Borderlands
Chairperson: Dr Munzoul Assal (University of Khartoum)1. Hassan E. Ahmed (University of Khartoum)
“Sudan’s Soft Borders: Past, Present and Future”
2. Guma Kunda Komey (University of Bahri)
& Joshua Akol Otor (University of Juba)
“Emerging (B)orders and Oligopolies of Violence Along the Borderlands of the Divided Sudan”
3. Abdelbasit Saeed (Independent)
“Factors contributing to political turbulence in borderlands: Post-separation challenges facing pastoralists squeezed betwen the two Sudans”
4. Timm Sureau (Max Planck Institute)
“The conflict of Amee junction – conflict over land at the road from Juba to Uganda”
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch at Jupiter Hotel
With the participation of
13:00 – 14:30 Roundtable discussion 2: Managing resources
Chairperson: Dr. Alice Frank (University Paris 1)5. Leben Moro (University of Juba)
“The Role of Oil and Other Natural Resources in Sudan-South Sudan border dispute”
6. Ana Elisa Cascão (SIWI, Stockholm)
“Sudans and the Niles: a complex hydropolitical puzzle”
7. Saverio Krätli (Tufts University)
“Standing Wealth. Pastoralist Livestock Production and Local Livelihood in Sudan”
15:00 – 18:00 Film screening and Discussion:
Our Beloved Sudan (90’, 2011), director Taghred Sanhouri, Presented by Ameira Eltrifi (Main character of the documentary) Alliance Ethio-Française
19:30 Dinner (place to be confirmed) WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE
Jupiter Hotel, Conference Hall
9:00 – 11:00 Roundtable Discussion 3: Mediating Sudans’
conflicts
Chairperson: Gunnar Sørbø
1. Pr. Abdelghaffar Ahmed (University of Khartoum)
“Third Sudan (Sudan, Separation, Contested interests, Security, Future scenarios )”
2. Maria Gabrielsen (Peace Research Institute of Oslo)
“New setting for international and regional mediators after the Secession of South Sudan”
3. Dr Mehari Maru (Independent)
“Mediating the Two Sudans: The Role of The AU and IGAD”
4. Volkert Doop (Independent)
“How to handle your neighbours’ conflict: Ethiopia’s relationships with Sudan and South Sudan”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Roundtable Discussion 4: Managing diversity (1)
Chairperson: Dr Leben Moro (University of Juba)5. Jérôme Tubiana (Independent) “Blue Nile at the crossroads”
6. Gérard Prunier (CNRS)
“Bullets or Ballots? The Sudanese Opposition since the Nairobi Agreement (2005-2013)”
7. Munzoul Assal (University of Khartoum)
“Shrinking frontiers of citizenship in Sudan”
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch at Jupiter Hotel
14:30 – 16:00 Roundtable Discussion 5: Managing diversity (2)
8. Agnès de Geoffroy (CEDEJ) &Mai Azzam (University of Khartoum, CEDEJ)
“What place for (religious) diversity in Sudan after the Secession?”
9. Alice Franck (University Paris 1)
“Envisaging Greater Khartoum Devoid of Southerners: Post CPA Reconfigurations within the Lower Income neighbourhood of Mussalas (Omdurman)”
10. Jean-Gabriel Leturcq (CFEE)
"Past for Future? Heritage-making and nation-building since 2005 in the two Sudans."
