Events Detail

Center for Religious Freedom & 

The Institute on Religion and Democracy 

Sudan Symposium II 

Post CPA Sudan: Ongoing Violence and Violations

And the Effect on Civil Society

Friday, January 11, 2008   9:30-10:30 AM 

    Shea, McDonnell, Kuctiel, Winter, and Mulla

                 Front: Shea and McDonnell

      Back: Kuctiel, Mulla, Zakaria, and Winter

View the FORA TV coverage of this event here

The Institute on Religion and Democracy and the Center for Religious Freedom of Hudson Institute recently held a second symposium on Sudan.  The discussion  centered on the continuation of violence in Sudan and the continued violations of the now two-year-old Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) by the National Congress Party.  

The CPA, signed on January 9, 2005, tentatively brought an end to more than two decades of war between the Sudan People's Liberation Army in the south and the forces of the Sudanese government in the north.  But since that time, the National Congress Party (formerly known as the National Islamic Front) in Khartoum has failed to honor some of the key provisions of the CPA, and has supported militia-based violence against Southern Sudan and the other marginalized areas such as the Nuba Mountains.    

A panel of knowledgeable experts discussed the violence that is threatening the peace agreement in Sudan, and has now brought new tragedy for Americans in Sudan.   

Panelists:
The Rt. Reverend Alapayo Manyang Kuctiel, Bishop of Rumbek, Episcopal Church of Sudan
Roger Winter, former Special Representative of the Deputy Secretary of State for Sudan
Jimmy Mulla, President, Southern Sudanese Voice for Freedom 

Amin Ismail Zakaria, Secretary General, Nuba Mountains Association 

For more information please contact Beth Kerley at bkerley@hudson.org

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