World watches Sudan peace process

Forced Migration Review's special issue on "Sudan: prospects of peace" is
launched on 30th November with launches in London, Khartoum and Juba.

"Sudan: prospects for peace" offers a wide range of opinion on the
inclusiveness of the peace process, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement's
prospects for success, feasibility of plans to assist the return of IDPs and
refugees and recovery and development strategies. Many of the 38 authors
regret the inability to negotiate peace in Darfur, the ongoing crisis in
Eastern Sudan, exclusion of women from the peace process and the significant
delays in merging the northern and southern armies and delivering funding
pledged by the international community in Oslo in April.

The Editors express qualified optimism: "If Sudanese can return home with
dignity, if gross inequalities in distribution of wealth and provision of
services can be redressed, if Sudanese women are given space to contribute to
its recovery and if Sudan can leap up the human development ladder to achieve
the Millennium Development Goals, the Sudanese will have much to teach other
countries emerging from the shadow of war."

Nine thousand copies will be distributed in Sudan thanks to financial
assistance from the US Institute of Peace, UNDP and UNICEF. The FMR Editors
are grateful for logistical assistance from the Government of National Unity,
the Government of Southern Sudan and the UN.

Each of the three launch events on 30th November includes a panel discussion
focusing on displacement, return and the prospects for peace in Sudan. Details
of speakers are available from the Editors.

The Khartoum event is being attended by several members of the Government of
National Unity, members of the National Assembly, senior staff from UN
agencies and representatives of leading civil society organisations and
international NGOs. The debate on plans for IDP return and reintegration will
be widely publicised in the Sudanese press.

The full text of articles is now online at: http://www.fmreview.org/sudan.htm
(English edition) and at http://www.hijra.org.uk/sudan.htm (Arabic edition).

If you usually receive FMR, your copy will be mailed to you shortly.
Otherwise, if you wish to obtain a hard copy, please contact the Editors at
[email protected] or on +44 1865 280700.