Just Peace Dialogue: Peace in Sudan

• Date: 18 June
• Time: 16:00 - 19:00
• Location: Universiteit Leiden - Wijnhaven

The Just Peace Dialogues will be held in English with simultaneous translation into Dutch.

Since April 2023 the current war in Sudan has brought larger death, destruction, and displacement than any other ongoing armed conflict on earth. This dialogue brings together wise thinkers and excellent speakers from academia, civil society, policymakers, and youth to discuss how peace can be brought back to Sudan. What kind of creative and hopeful scenarios can be envisioned for peace in Sudan? What would be the key ingredients for a lasting peace?

Meet the Panel

Dr Munzoul Assal, University of Bergen (previously Peace Research Institute, University of Khartoum)

• Munzoul Assal is an anthropologist focusing on migration, refugees, internally displaced persons, and peace building currently a Professor at the Bergen University. Assal has coordinated and led several MFA and NORAD on migration, refugees, internally displaced persons, conflict and humanitarian studies.

Mervat Hamadelneil, Sudanese Center on People Empowerment

• Mervat Hamadelneil is the director of the Sudanese Center on People Empowerment (SCOPE) which aims to enhance the rule of law sovereignty in Sudan and make it people-centered. She works in supporting democratic transformation in many ways, she worked in peace with many groups such as women groups, Horn of Africa initiative, Alliance of Civic and Professional groups to push for an inclusive, fair and sustainable peace connected to the Democratic transformation.

Suad Musa, Gender Centre for Peacemaking and Sustainable Development

• Suad Mustafa Elhag Musa is a co-founder and director of the Gender Centre for Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development in El Fasher, Darfur, Sudan, which works with war-affected internally displaced persons. She is Associate Fellow at the Horn International Institute for Strategic Studies in Nairobi. Since the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, she has facilitated and participated in numerous panel discussions organized by I-IDEA, as well as in peace negotiations, mediation, and advocacy with CMI and Humanitarian Dialogue.

Fatima Zainalabdin, Sudanese Refugees Organization

• Fatima Zainelabdin is a Sudanese pharmacist, social entrepreneur, and human rights advocate. She is the Founder of Hashab Wellbeing Enterprise and Executive Director of the Sudanese Refugees Organization (SRO) in the Netherlands. A former member of the Sudanese Professionals Association, Fatima played an active role in the 2019 revolution and continues to champion health equity, refugee rights, and peacebuilding through her work with displaced communities.

Moderator: Prof Dr Tahir Abbas, Leiden University

• Tahir Abbas FAcSS is Professor of Radicalisation Studies at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague. He graduated with a PhD in Ethnic Relations from the University of Warwick in 2001. His current research interests include Islamophobia and radicalisation, gender and violence, and polarisation and extremism.

Schedule

• 15.30 Doors Open
• 16.00-17.10 Roundtable
• 17.15-18.15 Breakout Groups
• 18.15-19.15 Borrel

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