ISS Seminar, Pretoria: Darfur: New Thinking on New Wars, a Leadership Perspective
Date: 2010-08-19
Venue: ISS Conference Room,
Block C, Brooklyn Court,
361 Veale Street,
New Muckleneuk,
(Parking in Brooklyn Mall and ABSA Court)
RSVP: Khunjulwa Peter
Tel                  (012) 346 9500
Fax             (012) 460 0997 / 086 508 1660
E-mail         [email protected]
Back in September of 2009, the then outgoing Rodolphe Adada, Joint Special Representative of the AU/UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur, UNAMID, was equivocal that the war in Darfur was over. His view was predicated on the sharp decline in violence and deaths over a period of time prior to his departure from that office. In reality, as much as the situation in Darfur could not be said to be the same as at the commencement of the conflict in 2003, the end of the conflict does not seem to be in sight, in spite the various initiatives from the UN, AU and the international Community. Is it not arguable that the situation in Darfur is one of ‘no peace no war’, albeit at a slower rate and in smaller numbers of casualties? How may this view been a distraction from the root causes of the conflict? What new thinking needs to be brought to bear on one of Africa’s new wars in Darfur?
The Speaker, who has just published an autobiography, including a focus on Darfur, will attempt to put the realities of Darfur in his own context, and share personal perspectives on the conflict from the time of the planning for the AU Mission in Sudan-Darfur (AMIS) in 2004, to its subsequent subsuming by UNAMID at the end of 2007, when he assumed the position of a Deputy, and to his final retirement from that position in mid-2010.
SPEAKER
Major General Henry K. Anyidoho
Former Deputy Force Commander, UNAMIR
Former Deputy Joint Special Representative, UNAMID
Presented by the Peace Missions Programme
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