Welcome to this RDV-seminar with Munzoul Assal on External mediation dilemmas in Sudan conflict: Jeddah and IGAD mediation initiatives.
Sudan’s war will soon complete its second year without foreseeable possibility for ending it in the near future. The war has inflicted egregious suffering and resulted in one of the most serious humanitarian disasters in the world. There were internal and external mediation attempts to put an end to the war but so far none of these attempts succeeded. Two of the external mediation efforts warrant looking at: The US-Saudi led Jeddah Platform and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Focussing on humanitarian and military aspects, Jeddah Platform managed to bring the warring parties to indirect negotiations but with no tangible outcomes. The IGAD focussed more on political dimensions of the war but also did not succeed. This seminar will analyse these two initiatives and explain why they did not succeed.
Munzoul Assal is Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, former Dean of Scientific Research, and Director of the Peace Research Institute at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. His research focuses on migration, refugees, conflict and humanitarian studies.
🗓️ Date: 13.02.2025, 14:15
📍 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen
The event is free and open to all.
This seminar is part of the RDV seminar series, a collaboration between the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) at the University of Bergen (UiB) and the CMI-UiB Centre on Law and Social Transformation. To present in the interdisciplinary series, we have national and international researchers to talk about their pioneering research on topics regarding law, democracy, and welfare.
Photo credits: Åse Johanne Roti Dahl.