The Future of Southern Sudan: Differing Perspectives

A Symposium at Macalester College,
Saint Paul, Minnesota
March 1-2, 2002

Preliminary Program

FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2002

10:00-10:15a.m. Opening Remarks

Dr. Daniel J. Hornbach, Dean of the Faculty and Provost, Macalester College

The Rev. Dr. Timothy Hart-Andersen, Pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

10:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. "Dynamics of Identities: A Crisis and an Opportunity for Peace and Unity in the Sudan" Responses and Questions

Dr. Francis M. Deng, Ralph Bunche Institute, Brookings Institution, and the United Nations

Francis M. Deng is distinguished professor and senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies Graduate Center, CUNY. He also serves as nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons. Professor Deng formerly was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan as well as Sudanese Ambassador to the United States, Scandinavia and Canada. He was educated at Khartoum University and Yale Law School. Professor Deng is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan.

1:45-4:00 p.m. "Fueling Sudan's War: Oil, Ethnic Violence and Human Rights" Responses and Questions

 Ms. Jemera Rone, Human Rights Watch.

Jemera Rone has been Sudan researcher for Human Rights Watch since 1993. She authored four book-length reports on human rights abuses in Sudan, and is currently completing a fifth on the impact of oil development. Ms. Rone opened the first Human Rights Watch office outside the United States in El Salvador and has also investigated human rights abuses in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Croatia, Serbia, Yemen, Iraqi Kurdistan, Angola and Uganda. Ms. Rone also serves as counsel for Human Rights Watch and graduated from Barnard College and Rutgers University Law School. She has taught at Fordham University School of Law.

6:00-6:30p.m. Social, Weyerhaeuser Lounge

6:30-8:00p.m. Dinner, Weyerhaeuser Board Room, hosted by Dr. Michael S. McPherson, President of Macalester College

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2002

10:00 a.m.-12:15p.m. "The 'Islamic Dimension' in the Constitutional Foundations of Self-Determination for all Sudanese" Responses and Questions

Dr. Abdullahi An-Na'im, Emory University

Abdullahi An-Na’im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law and Fellow of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University. Prior to his arrival at Emory, Professor An-Na’im taught on law, human rights and Islam at universities in Sudan, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada and at UCLA. He has been Scholar-in-residence at the Ford Foundation and Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Outside of academia, Professor An- Na’im was Executive Director of Human Rights Watch/Africa from 1993-1995. His degrees include: LL.B. (Honours), University of Khartoum; LL.B. (Honours), (LL.M.), University of Cambridge; M.A., University of Cambridge; Ph.D., (Law), University of Edinburgh. His book, Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law, has been translated into Arabic, Indonesian and Russian.

PLENARY SESSION 1:30-4:00p.m. "The United States and Sudan" Responses and Questions

Ambassador Donald Petterson

Donald Petterson served as U.S. Ambassador to Sudan from 1992-1995, completing his tour the year before the American embassy in Khartoum was closed. Ambassador Petterson’s other foreign service posts included: Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1990 - 91; Director of the Liberia Task Force at the Department of State, 1990; Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, 1990; Ambassador to Tanzania, 1986-89; Ambassador to Somalia, 1978 - 82. In 1998, Ambassador Petterson was called out of retirement to take charge of the U.S. embassy in Monrovia, Liberia. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has written a book chronicling his time in Khartoum titled, Inside Sudan: Political Islam, Conflict, and Catastrophe.

Closing Remarks 4:00-4:15pm

Respondents are Macalester College faculty members, students, and alumni.

Free and open to the public.

All sessions are held in the Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel, on Grand Avenue just West of Snelling Avenue.

For more information, please contact

J. Quinn Martin
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
651.698.5116
jqmartin@macalester.edu
www.macalester.edu/~sudan 

"The Future of Southern Sudan: Differing Perspectives" is sponsored by Westminster Presbyterian Church, the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area, and various departments at Macalester College.