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Sudan’s upcoming elections in 2009 raise hopes and concerns for the country’s future. According to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed in 2005 between the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Sudan is scheduled to hold national and state level elections in 2009.
With elections planned in Sudan in 2009, the question of how residents of the Darfur region should participate points to a number of challenges that remain unanswered. Is the security situation in Darfur adequate to permit elections?
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- October 20, 2009 | Event
The upcoming 2010 elections and 2011 referendum in Sudan are the culminating events of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the National Congress Party and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement. However, looking at 2011 and beyond, there is increasing concern that Sudan may revert to violence rather than move forward towards the sustainable peace envisioned by the CPA.
- October 15, 2009 | Event
USIP's Daniel Brumberg joined a panel of guest speakers, including Congressman Keith Ellison, for a lively discussion of USIP's new volume "Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World."
- October 2, 2009 | Event
Born out of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) has established itself as a functioning entity but also faces significant difficulties.
- September 16, 2009 | News Releases
Daniel P. Serwer, who has supervised the United States Institute of Peace's (USIP) efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans, Haiti and Sudan, will now lead the growing Centers of Innovation at the Institute, overseeing a wide range of cutting edge projects. Serwer, who was the founding vice president of USIP's Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, will now focus full-time on innovation in rule of law, religion and peacemaking, sustainable economies, media and conflict, science, technology, security sector reform, and other areas related to peacebuilding.
Sudan faces challenges on many fronts, among them an ongoing conflict in Darfur, a fragile Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the north and south that ended decades of civil war, and upcoming nationwide elections at every level of government in 2010. The US Institute of Peace is engaging all of these issues in an effort to help build a more stable Sudan.
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USIP's recent work on Sudan includes:
- A series of Electoral Violence Prevention Workshops conducted so far in the capital city Khartoum, Southern Kordofan state in the center of the country, and Juba and Yei in southern Sudan.
- Analyzing the prospects for conducting elections in the troubled Darfur region in 2010 (read more)
- Engaging the Darfur Diaspora throughout North America in efforts to strengthen consensus on how to build peace in Darfur (read more)
- Organizing a series of public events to raise awareness among policymakers and others around Washington DC on key issues, such as the International Criminal Court’s indictment of President Omer al-Bashir (read more) and relations between Sudan and Chad (read more)
- Analyzing opportunities for building indigenous conflict management capacity in the “Three Areas” – the volatile zones on the border between northern and southern Sudan that contain much of Sudan’s oil reserves.
- Collaborating with the Sudan Inter-Religions Council to promote interfaith peacemaking in Darfur by establishing and strengthening local peace committees.