Event Description
Join Sudanese experts on July 13 at 12:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm Khartoum time for Part II of our series of expert roundtables on the recent civil conflict in Sudan and the priority issues to be addressed within the country.
Civil war erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and a rival paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15, 2023. As a consequence, Sudan is teetering on the brink of becoming a failed state with hundreds killed, hundreds of thousands forced to flee the country, and millions in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. An unwillingness to adhere to even a series of temporary ceasefires has prompted the US and Saudi Arabia to suspend even those minimal efforts to bring peace back to Sudan. What happens now, and how can Sudan be returned to the path of peace? Join our Sudanese experts, many of whom were in Sudan when the conflict erupted, to discuss what can be done.
This is part of the PILPG Thought Leadership Initiative. The Initiative focuses on prominent international law and international affairs topics and organizes monthly expert roundtables to share expertise and reflections from our work on peace negotiations, post-conflict constitution drafting, and war crimes prosecution.
عن الحدث
ندعوكم للانضمام إلينا للحوار مع الخبراء السودانيين في 13 تموز/يوليو في الساعة 12:00 ظهراً بتوقيت شرق الولايات المتحدة / 6:00 مساءً بتوقيت الخرطوم لطرح نقاش حول التطورات الأخيرة في السودان فيما يتعلق بالنزاع بين القوات المسلحة السودانية وقوات الدعم السريع والقضايا ذات الأولوية التي يجب التعامل معها داخل السودان.
اندلع القتال بين القوات المسلحة السودانية وقوات الدعم السريع في 15 أبريل / نيسان ودمرت البنية التحتية الحيوية في العاصمة الخرطوم ومما أسفر عن مقتل المئات وإجبار الآلاف على الفرار من السودان.
سيناقش أعضاء اللجنة في هذا الحوار التطورات والقضايا الأخيرة المتعلقة بالنزاع المسلح في السودان وسبل الخروج من الصراع الحالي. سيدير هذا الحوار رئيس مجموعة القانون الدولي العام والسياسة د. بول ويليامز.
Speakers
Nasredeen Abdulbari
Nasredeen Abdulbari is the former Minister of Justice of Sudan, and is currently a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs. In his ministerial role, he served as the principal legal advisor to the Government of Sudan and led and directed Sudan’s transformational legal and justice reforms. He also participated in and contributed to the overall political-reform and state-restructuring efforts and processes designed to construct a new stable, just, and properly-functioning democratic state.Nasredeen, holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honors (LL.B.(Hons.)) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Khartoum, where he consistently was ranked first in his class and won nine academic distinction awards; an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Stoffel Scholar and a Landon H. Gammon Fellow; and a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) from the Georgetown University Law Center.Previously, he was a lecturer in the International and Comparative Law Department, University of Khartoum, where he taught public international law, conflict of laws, and introduction to the English legal system.
Maha Tambal
Maha Tambal is A Reagn-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Alumna at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) – (2020) and a Humphrey Fulbright Fellow Alumna at American University’s Washington College of Law (2021-2022). Tambal is currently a Program Manager at DT Institute in the US. Prior to that, Tambal served as the Civil Society Organizations Coordinator at the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Sudan Office, under the USAID Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) program to support the democratic transition in Sudan. Before that, she was a Training and Partnership Coordinator at RedR UK in Khartoum, Sudan, where she worked to advance civil society's capacity to play a vital role in the post-democratic transition in Sudan in 2019. She worked for UN WOMEN to support women's economic empowerment and the peace process in the Darfur region. In 2018, she worked in Kenya in migration management to enhance resilience between refugees and host communities in the Horn of Africa. She also worked for several Sudanese national NGOs to support local civil society and strengthen youth and women's political participation in public engagement in decision-making and enforcing the rule of law, good governance, and accountability.
Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, PhD Political Science
Abdel Salam worked as a Research Associate and Lecturer at the British universities of Cambridge & Durham, and an Associate Professor at the Canadian University of Windsor, Ontario.
Abdel Salam worked for 10 years at Amnesty International as a researcher then as a Program Director for the Middle East & North Africa region.
He joined the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2012 and worked there for nine years during which he oversaw the establishment of the Yemen country office, held the positions of the Regional Representative of the High Commissioner for the MENA Region, based in Beirut, and was Head of the UN Centre for Human Rights Training and Documentation.
Abdel Salam also previously worked as a Senior Human Rights Advisor to Sudanese Prime Minister of the Transitional Government, Abdallah Hamdouk, and the Minister of Justice (2020-2021).
Dr. Paul R. Williams
Dr. Paul R. Williams holds the Rebecca I. Grazier Professorship in Law and International Relations at American University where he teaches in the School of International Service and at the Washington College of Law. Dr. Williams is also the co-founder of the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), a pro bono law firm providing legal assistance to states and governments involved in peace negotiations, post-conflict constitution drafting, and the prosecution of war criminals. As a world renowned peace negotiation lawyer, Dr. Williams has assisted over two dozen parties in major international peace negotiations and has advised numerous parties on the drafting and implementation of post-conflict constitutions. Several of Dr. Williams' pro bono government clients throughout the world joined together to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr. Williams has served as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as an Attorney-Adviser for European and Canadian affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Williams is a sought-after international law and policy expert. He is frequently interviewed by major print and broadcast media and regularly contributes op-eds to major newspapers. Dr. Williams has authored six books on various topics concerning international law, and has published over three dozen scholarly articles on topics of international law and policy. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on a number of occasions relating to specific peace processes, transitional justice, and self-determination. Dr. Williams is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and has served as a Counsellor on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. In 2019, Paul was awarded the Cox International Law Center's Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice. More information about Dr. Williams can be found at www.drpaulrwilliams.com.