Sudanese women activists do not use United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325 to claim rights. During my eight years of engagement with women’s ...

May 6, 2010 An independent review by six leading human rights and Sudan advocacy groups reveals that the Sudanese peace processes for Darfur and Southern Sudan show no significant progress. They are at best stagnating and at worst backsliding toward complete failure and a return to full-scale, national war.

Abstract The role of civil society organizations in peace making and peace building is often valorized, especially in countries that witness protracted ...

Currently, around seven million people are affected by migration and displacement to, from, and through Sudan. Nearly one million people are seeking refuge ...

Remarks by U.S. President Obama in a Ministerial Meeting on Sudan.

A popular uprising recently ousted Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist cronies from power after having ruled Sudan with an iron fist since 1989. Sexual abuse ...

ARUSS WorkshopReviewing Dynamics of Change in rural Sudan14 – 16 October 2014Ahfad University for Women   Workshop Programme Tuesday 14/10 ...

How can we make peace without functioning state institutions? The starting point of this lecture is that existing scholarly and policymaking approaches to fragile states have been premised on an analysis of what these countries are not, namely that they do not possess capable and autonomous state institutions that can manage political conflicts.

Til tross for sine mange konflikter seiler Sudan opp som et strategisk viktig land med et stabilt regime. Vestlige land støtter opp om en «nasjonal dialog» som president Bashir har tatt initiativ til selv om få tror at den vil skape fred, fjerne undertrykkelse og gi reelle åpninger for en svak opposisjon.

While there is a connection between climate variability and conflict in Sudan, the effects are played out in interaction with other conflict-promoting ...

During the Egyptian uprisings against president Mubarak in 2011, people demanded bread, freedom and social justice. Bread is the daily staple for millions of Egyptians, and came to symbolize the demand for a fairer economic system. But does food insecurity necessarily cause social unrest and conflict?

Sudanese women activists launch reform initiatives to bring justice to rape victims. Non-governmental and governmental actors alike advocate for change. -International donors should seize this window of opportunity and facilitate dialogue between different stakeholders in Sudan, says CMI-researcher Liv Tønnessen.

Khartoum remains an island of peace amidst armed conflict in many corners of the country.

In 1991, Sudan’s Islamist regime expanded the circumstances under which abortions are permitted within 90 days of conception, to include rape. This ...

There is an appetite for change. Discontent against Bashir is widespread. The popular sentiment rumbling in Khartoum is that Bashir will fall sooner or later.

Kriser og kriger – er det bruk for oss nå? - Nr 01 - 2017 - Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift - Idunn - tidsskrifter på nett // ...

Vestlige land bør være mer ydmyke overfor afrikanske lederes evne til å rydde opp på eget kontinent, skriver seniorforsker Gunnar Sørbø i Morgenbladet.

Under Sudan’s Criminal Act (1991), rape is defined as zina (adultery and fornication) without consent. This means that the strict rules of evidence ...

Økonomien tvinger Sudans Omar al-Bashir og Sør-Sudans Salva Kiir til samarbeid.

Reflections on the peace process in the Sudan and South Sudan from 2002 to 2015. Endre Stiansen, Senior Policy and Research Advisior at the United Nations ...