10:00 – 10:30 PM  •  OPENING REMARKS 

10:00 – 10:15 PM  •  WELCOMING REMARKS

Andreas Esheté, President, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa
Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis, Director, IES, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa   

10:15 – 10:30 PM  •  INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Conference Coordinators:
Salah M. Hassan, Professor and Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Carina E. Ray, Assistant Professor, History Department, Fordham University, New York City

10:45– 12:45 PM SESSION I: 
Origins and Evolution of the Conflict

Chair: Bahru Zewde, Professor, Historian, and President of the Forum for Social Science

Atta El-Batahani, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Khartoum
“Ideological Expansionist Movements Versus Historical Indigenous Rights in Darfur Region of Sudan: From Actual Homicide to Potential Genocide”

Benaiah Yongo-Bure, Professor, Liberal Studies, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan
“Marginalization and War: From the South to Darfur”

Abdullahi Osman El-Tom, Senior Lecturer and Chair, Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
“Darfur People: Too Black for the Arab-Islamic Project of Sudan” 

Discussant: Salih Mahmoud Osman, Member of the Transitional Parliament, Lawyer, and Human Rights Activist, Khartoum

12:45 – 2:30 PM  •  LUNCH BREAK 

2:30 – 3:45 PM  •  KEYNOTE ADDRESS 

Introduction: Zenebework Tadesse, Researcher, Forum for Social Science Studies, Coordinator for UNISA, Addis Ababa

Keynote Speaker
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York City
“The Politics of Conflict in and Around Darfur”

3:45 – 4:00 PM  •  COFFEE BREAK

4:00 - 6:00 PM   SESSION II: 
Representations of the Conflict in Darfur

Chair: Tekalign Wolde Mariam, Professor, History Department, Addis Ababa University

Salah M. Hassan, Director and Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
“Naming the Conflict: Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan”

Carina Ray, Assistant Professor, History Department, Fordham University, New York City
“Darfur in the African Press.”

Ahmed Sikainga, Professor, History Department, Ohio State University, Columbus
“Darfur: Perspectives from Within Sudan”

Discussant: Gerard Prunier, Research professor at the University of Paris, Former Director of The French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa

7:30 – 9:30 PM  •  WELCOME RECEPTION AND DINNER

 

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM  •  SESSION III: 
Gender, War, and Violence

Chair: Timnit Abraha, Regional Coordinator, Inter-Africa Group, Addis Ababa

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Professor, Qatar University, Doha
“Competing Masculinities: Probing Political Disputes as Acts of Violence against Women from Southern Sudan and Darfur”

Karin Willemse, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
“The Darfur War, Gender, and the Contingency of Sudanese Citizenship”

Fahima A. Hashim, Director, Salmmah Women’s Resource Centre, Khartoum and Zaynab M. Elsawi, Coordinator of Sudanese Women Empowerment for Peace, Khartoum
“Sudanese Women Strategizing to End Sexual Violence in Darfur”

Discussant:  Zenebework Tadesse, Researcher, Forum for Social Science Studies, Coordinator for UNISA, Addis Ababa

12:15 – 2:00 PM  •  LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Introduction
Ambassador Dr. Nureldin Satti, UNESCO Representative to Ethiopia, Djibouti, the African Union, and IGAD, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Guest Speaker
Mansour Khalid, Former Sudan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of the Political Bureau, Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM), Khartoum
“Darfur: A Problem within a Problem”

2:00 – 3:30 PM  •  SESSION IV:
Law, Human Rights, and Prosecution

Chair: Dr Jean-Bosco Butera, Chair of Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University, and Former Director of the Africa Program of the United Nations-affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE)

Kamal El Gizouli, Lawyer, Human Rights Activist, Poet, and Writer, Khartoum
“The Wrong Confrontation: The Dialectics of Law, Politics and the Prosecution of War Crimes in Darfur”
            
Amira Khair, Human Rights Activist and Adrienne Fricke, Independent Consultant, Boston
“Sudan's Legal System and the Lack of Access to Justice for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Darfur”

Grant Farred, Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
“End of Violence: Against Civil Society”

Discussant: Meaza Ashenafi, Member, Economic Commission for Africa, Founder and Former President of Ethiopian Women Lawyer's Association, Addis Ababa

3:30 – 3:45 PM  •  REFRESHMENT BREAK

3:45 – 5:15 PM  •  SESSION V:
Civil Society, the State, and the Struggle for Peace in Darfur

Chair: Tamerat Kedebe, Director of Inter Africa Group, Addis Ababa

Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil, Professor, Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Faculty of Economic & Social Studies, University of Khartoum, Khartoum
“Power-Sharing and Ethnic Polarization: The Role of School Teachers in Conflict Management in North Darfur.”

Al-Tayib Zain Al-Abdin, Professor of Political Science and Advisor to Vice Chancellor, University of Khartoum, Sudan
“Civil Society’s Approach to the Darfur Crisis”

Abaker Mohamed Abuelbashar, Independent Scholar and Member of the Leadership of Sudan Liberation Army, London
“On the Failure of the Darfur Peace Talks in Abuja”

Discussant: Professor Mogobe Ramose, Regional Coordinator, UNISA, Addis Ababa

5:15 – 6:30 PM  •  SESSION VI:
Special Presentation: The Struggle for Peace in Darfur

Introduction: Salah M. Hassan, Director and Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Yasir Arman, Deputy Secretary-General, Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM), Deputy Member of the SPLM’s Darfur Task Force, Khartoum
“Peace and Unification of Darfur Rebel Movement: Report on SPLM Efforts and Vision”

Discussant: Kassahun Checole, Publisher, Africa World Press

6:30 – 6:45 PM  •  CLOSING REMARKS

Els van der Plas, Director, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Netherlands

Andreas Esheté, President, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa

7:30 - 9:30 PM  •  FAREWELL DINNER