Sudan (BCFPS) Conference
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. JULY 3-5, 2008.
Keynote address will be delivered by Salva Kiir Mayardit, Vice-
President of Sudan.
Other attendees include:
Professor Sabrino Farajolla, Vice-chancellor, University of Juba,
Southern Sudan
Dr. Lual Chany Chol, Vice Chancellor, University of Upper Nile,
Southern Sudan
Professor Telar, Vice-Chancellor, University of Bhar-al-Ghazal,
Southern Sudan
PAPERS SHOULD BROADLY ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING ISSUES:
Grassroots Sudanese and others from throughout the worldwide Sudanese
diaspora will be brought together with scholars, high-level
governmental and non-governmental leaders from Sudan, the Diaspora and
from host societies such as Canada. Stakeholders, security and
policing agencies and other organizations with Sudanese interests will
also be invited in order to address and assess the issues of capacity
building, human rights, economic development, and governance in
southern Sudan, with a particular focus on the role of the diaspora
communities in guiding this development.
Southern Sudan is one of the most poorly developed parts of Africa in
terms of basic infrastructure – roads, electricity, communications,
economic development, education, health services and administration.
The conference will address what appears to be a disconnect in
effective co-ordination of development efforts between elected
government officials, NGOs, civil society and with key donor agencies
who have bilateral and multi-lateral relationships with the Sudan. It
is anticipated that the input from field workers from these agencies,
as well as from the Sudanese diaspora community, will help to keep the
discussions anchored in realities on the ground, both in Sudan and
abroad.
Calgary, Alberta, has one of the largest southern Sudanese diaspora
communities in North America, many of whom are Dinka and Nuer and who
are now involved, ironically, in minimum wage labour in the cattle and
meat-packing industries.
Please send all abstracts and inquiries to Doyle Hatt, Chair,
Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary: dhatt@ucalgary.ca
