Reinventing Sudans: Political and social restructuring underway
Roundtable, Addis Ababa, June 12th – 13th, 2012
Presentation
This academic roundtable aims at examining the recent developments in North and South Sudan. Organized jointly by the Centre for social, legal and economic studies and documentation in Khartoum (CEDEJ, Khartoum) and the French Centre of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa (CFEE, Addis Ababa), the purpose is to bring together international, North and South Sudanese researchers analysing historical and contemporary dynamics of the two Sudans. Actors from international organizations, as well as NGOs, who have been engaged in the process of independence of South Sudan and/or managing its socio-economic consequences, will also be invited to special sessions. Not only geo-political and strategic issues will be tackled, but this workshop focuses on economic, social and, cultural developments, such as migrations, urbanization, and the cultural interactions underlying the changes re-inventing links between the two countries.
Cette table ronde ambitionne d'examiner les récents développements des Soudans du Nord et du Sud. Organisée conjointement par le Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (Cedej, Khartoum) et le Centre français des études étiopiennes (CFEE, Addis Ababa), le but est de réunir des chercheurs d'Europe et des Soudans du Sud et du Nord pour analyser ensemble les dynamiques historiques et contemporaines à l'oeuvre dans les deux Soudans. Seront également présents des acteurs des organisations internationales et des ONG impliquées dans le processus d'indépendance du Soudan du Sud et/ou dans la gestion de ses conséquences socio-économiques. Au delà des problèmes géopolitiques et stratégiques, cette table ronde abordera les questions économiques, sociales et culturelles telles que les migrations, l'urbanisation ou les interactions culturelles sur des temps longs. On mettra en lumière des dynamiques de changements qui contribuent à la réinvention des deux pays.
Addis Ababa, June 12, 13 2012 Conference room, Taitu Hotel
French Center for Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) – (Kebana Shell)
17:30 Opening of the photograph exhibition: Sudan (s) Frontiers/Frontlines By Jerôme Tubiana
After its independence in 1956, Sudan has seen the upraisal of various rebellions in its peripheries. This has soon led to a fragmentation of the Sudanese territory into areas controlled by the government and others controlled by the rebels, separated by frontlines or fluid « no man's lands », which were often true « nomads' lands » - pastoralists having kept crossing the boundaries without necessarily feeling they should belong to one side. With the independence of South Sudan in mid-2011, those frontlines or buffer zones have now become (disputed) borderlands. Researcher and photographer, Jérôme Tubiana has been travelling around those old and new frontiers since 2004, starting with the border between Darfur and Chad, and most recently the new borderlands between North and South Sudan.
Après son indépendance en 1956, le Soudan a connu l'émergence de nombreuses rébellions dans ses périphéries. Cela a bientôt conduit à la fragmentation de l'espace soudanais en territoires contrôlés par le gouvernement et en zones rebelles, séparés par des lignes de front ou des « no man's lands » fluides, qui étaient souvent les terres des nomades – les pasteurs ayant continué à franchir les frontières sans nécessairement se sentir d'un camp plutôt que de l'autre. Avec l'indépendance du Sud-Soudan à la mi-2011, ces lignes de front ou zones tampon sont désormais devenues des frontières contestées. Chercheur et photographe, Jérôme Tubiana a parcouru ces anciennes et nouvelles frontières depuis 2004, à commencer par la frontière entre le Darfour et le Tchad, et plus récemment les nouveaux territoires frontaliers entre Nord et Sud-Soudan.
Tuesday 12 june
Taitu Hotel, Conference Room
8:30 am Welcoming coffee –tea
8:45 Welcoming address by the organizers – Objectives of the workshop
9:00 – 10:30 Roundtable discussion 1:
New Borders, Old Boundaries (I): Delineating the borders, historical perspectives Chairman: Eloi Ficquet (CFEE, Addis Ababa)
1. Joshua Otor Akol (Juba University, South Sudan) The Sudan-South Sudan Colonial and Post-Colonial Borders
2. Gérard Prunier (CFEE-CNRS, France) Centers and Peripheries in Sudanese History (1821-2012)
3. Jean-Gabriel Leturcq (CFEE, Addis Ababa)£ Cultural boundaries: Old identities and current heritage policies
10:30 – 12:45 Roundtable discussion 2:
New Borders, Old Boundaries (II): Managing the border Chairman: Joshua Akol (Juba University, South Sudan)
4. Agnès de Geoffroy (CEDEJ-Khartoum) Border Management: Political settings, security constraints and human imperatives
5. Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed (Khartoum University, Sudan) The impact of the new border on the pastoral migration
6. Abdalbasit Saeed (Independent Consultant, Sudan) The Sudan Borderlands after The Creation of South Sudan: Challenges and Prospects for the six states bordering on South Sudan
13:00 – 15:00 Working lunch (closed session).
16:00 – 17:30 Film screening and Discussion:
Darfurian voices (38', 2010) Presented by Jérôme Tubiana
Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gabura, (52', 2008) Frederique Cifuentes
Alliance Ethio-Française (to be confirmed)
Wenesday 13 june
Taitu Hotel, Conference room
9:00 – 12:00 Roundtable Discussion 3
Resources management: Opportunities and Challenges (I) Chairman: Adbel Ghaffar M. Ahmed (Khartoum University, Sudan)
7. Ana Elisa Cascão (SIWI, Stockholm) South Sudan, the Nile and the hydropolitical crossroads
8. Samson Wassara (Juba University, South Sudan) Sharing Natural Resources between the Two Sudans
9. Hassan Ahmed (Khartoum University, Sudan) The emergence of the vulnerable: resources and geopolitics after Separation.
14:00 – 16:00 Roundtable Discussion 4 People and State: Opportunities and Challenges (II) Chairman: Abdalbasit Saeed (Independent Consultant, Sudan)
10. Munzoul Assal (Khartoum University, Sudan) Urbanization in Sudan: post referendum implications
11. Marc Lavergne (CNRS, France) A tentative approach of the governance model in the two Sudans, at the junction between global ideologies and local interests
12. Jaafar K. Juma (Juba University, South Sudan) Nationality and Citizenship: new challenges for the Republics of Sudan and South Sudan
13. Jérôme Tubiana (Independent consultant, France) Traditional Authority: Justice and Reconciliation in Darfour
