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------Original message------ From: Rift Valley Institute <[email protected]> To: "elisabeth" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, June 15, 2013 3:38:43 PM GMT+0000 Subject: RVI June 2013 Update http://www.riftvalley.net/ The Rift Valley Institute is a non-profit organisation operating in the Sudans, the Horn of Africa, East Africa and the Great Lakes region. The Institute works with communities, institutions and individuals to bring local knowledge to bear on political and economic development. RVI projects are designed to influence aid interventions, support local research capacity, record and preserve indigenous culture and promote freedom of information. Fellows of the Institute, drawn from Eastern Africa and beyond, are practitioners, activists and academic specialists in the fields of history, anthropology, political science, economics, development, conservation, human rights, media and law. MORE INFORMATION www.riftvalley.net CONTACT Rift Valley Institute (UK) 26 St.Luke's Mews London W11 1DF T: +44 20 7229 2562 Rift Valley Institute (EA) PO Box 30710 GPO 00100 Nairobi, Kenya T: +254 705 978 413 T: +254 789 253 805 Rift Valley Institute (USA) Bard College PO Box 5000 Annandale-on-Hudson NY 12504-5000 EMAIL [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rift-Valley-Institute/299393606778805 http://twitter.com/rvinews http://www.youtube.com/user/Riftvalleyinstitutehttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/rift-valley-institute/id591349459 CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS EMAIL IN YOUR BROWSER (http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=bbe4bf6326e7666108dd11e6f&id=f33a09dae1&e=52793493b1) | FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND (http://us5.forward-to-friend1.com/forward?u=bbe4bf6326e7666108dd11e6f&id=f33a09dae1&e=52793493b1) Rift Valley Institute Update June 2013 Learning season in Jinja… My Mother Will Not Come to Juba… New post in RVI Juba office… Uneasy peace in Ituri… Nairobi Forum events… Nuruddin Farah and Binyavanga Wainaina… New S. Sudan reports FIELD COURSES EAST AFRICA The learning season in Jinja The Institute's 2013 field courses began in the second week of June with the Horn of Africa Course. Forty-four participants gathered in Jinja, Uganda, from 8 to 14 June for a rolling seminar on the history, politics, economics and culture of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and the Somali territories. The teaching staff of the course comprised more than a dozen luminaries from the worlds of scholarship and activism in the Horn, including Christopher Clapham, Kjetil Tronvoll, Dereje Feyissa, Shiferaw Bekele and Fouzia Musse. The RVI's Great Lakes Course (covering Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of the Congo) will take place from 22-28 June; the Sudan and South Sudan course from 6-12 July. Both courses are held in Jinja, overlooking the Nile. A limited number of places on each course are now available due to cancellations. 2013 COURSE PROSPECTUS (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/f2uwqzfkkjajy0r/RVI%20-%202013%20Course%20Prospectus.pdf) (FRANÇAIS (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/gjl6e2p37uzy1rw/RVI%20-%202013%20Prospectus%20du%20Stage.pdf) )| GREAT LAKES SYLLABUS (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/io1pqbejsngn5tw/RVI%20Courses%20-%20Great%20Lakes%20Course%20Syllabus.pdf) | SUDANS SYLLABUS (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/lq529kzr80enh41/RVI%20Courses%20-%20Sudan%20%26%20South%20Sudan%20Course%20Syllabus.pdf) |APPLY NOW (https://riftvalley.wufoo.eu/forms/rift-valley-institute-field-courses-2013/) SOUTH SUDAN My Mother Will Not Come to Juba: launch of report in South Sudan "My mother will not come to Juba. She is waiting where she is. But she is waiting for you." In South Sudan delays in the making of the national constitution have led to growing public concern. My Mother Will Not Come to Juba: South Sudanese debate the constitution is the record of a series of public lectures and discussions held at the University of Juba in March 2013. The event was organised by the RVI and the Centre for Peace and Development. A dozen distinguished South Sudanese intellectuals, including the Chairman of the Constitutional Review Commission, a former Chief Justice and leading representatives of civil society, discussed pressing aspects of constitution-making. Issues discussed included the composition of the National Constitutional Review Commission, free speech, ethnicity, land tenure, the rights of women and disabled people and term limits for political office. Contributors to the publication include Akolda Ma'an Tier, Ambrose Riiny Thiik, Ben Lou Poggo, David Deng, Gabriel Shadar, Henry Swaka, Jacob Akol, Joanna Oyediran, Jok Madut Jok , Marcia Dawes, Merekaje Lorna and Paleki Matthew Obur. My Mother Will Not Come to Juba will be launched in Juba at the Institut Francais at the University on Monday 17 June at 6 PM. The event is open to the public. Digital copies of the publication will be available at the reception, and online on 18 June. Contact Daniel Watkins, RVI Juba, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) to reserve a place at the reception. PRESS RELEASE (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/np0bypdf1t1to54/RVI%20-%20My%20Mother%20Will%20Not%20Come%20to%20Juba%20-%20Press%20Release%20-%2014%20June%202013.pdf) SOUTH SUDAN New position in RVI Juba Office Interviews take place in the third week of June in Juba for the post of South Sudan Programme Manager. This is a new position with responsibility for administering the RVI's recently established office in Juba, South Sudan. Applications will be accepted up to the extended deadline of 17 June. The Programme Manager will be responsible for general office management and project administration in South Sudan. Applicants must be entitled to work in South Sudan. A job description can be downloaded here (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0ipuukqmfv5glph/RVI%20Job%20Description%20-%20South%20Sudan%20Programme%20Manager%20-%2028%20March%202013.pdf) . Apply online here (https://riftvalley.wufoo.eu/forms/rvi-employment/) . JOB ANNOUNCEMENT (https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0ipuukqmfv5glph/RVI%20Job%20Description%20-%20South%20Sudan%20Programme%20Manager%20-%2028%20March%202013.pdf) | APPLY ONLINE (https://riftvalley.wufoo.eu/forms/rvi-employment/) USALAMA PROJECT GREAT LAKES The uneasy peace in Ituri The seventh RVI Usalama report on armed movements in the DRC focusses on two groups operating in Ituri District, the FNI and the FRPI. The report, by Henning Tamm, analyses these two mainly Lendu armed groups and considers the lessons to be learnt from the relative decline in violence in Ituri. FNI and FRPI: Local Resistance and Regional Alliances in North-Eastern Congo is free to download (http://www.riftvalley.net/publications) in English (in French from August). Forthcoming Usalama reports will focus on the armed groups of the Banyamulenge community and the history of violence in South Kivu. Hard copies of Usalama reports are available from Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22Usalama+Project%22) . An interview with Usalama Project Director, Jason Stearns, is available on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHmcHNyty5k) . DOWNLOAD FNI AND FRPI (http://www.riftvalley.net/publications) | USALAMA REPORTS ON AMAZON (http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22Usalama+Project%22) | JASON STEARNS INTERVIEW (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHmcHNyty5k) NAIROBI FORUM HORN OF AFRICA Conversation with Nadifa Mohamed, 21 June, Nairobi On 21 June the Kwani Trust (http://www.kwani.org) and the Nairobi Forum will host an evening with the Somali-British writer Nadifa Mohamed. Identified by Granta as one of the best of young British novelists, Nadifa will discuss her award winning novel Black Mamba Boy, her forthcoming novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls and her Somali homeland. The event takes place at 5.00pm at the Nairobi National Museum. Prior registration is required. REGISTER HERE (https://riftvalley.wufoo.com/forms/nadifa-mohamed-in-conversation-and-kenyan-writers/) NAIROBI FORUM HORN OF AFRICA What future for democracy in Somaliland? 27 June, Nairobi On June 27, the Nairobi Forum will host the public launch of a report by Saferworld and the Somaliland Non State Actors Forum (SONSAF) on the 2012 district council elections in Somaliland. The report - Somalilanders Speak: Lessons from the 2012 local elections - is an account of election observation by Somaliland civil society. The event takes place at the BIEA (http://www.biea.ac.uk/about-us/find-us/) . Prior registration is required. REGISTER HERE (https://riftvalley.wufoo.com/forms/what-future-for-democracy-in-somaliland/) | BIEA (http://www.biea.ac.uk/) NAIROBI FORUM HORN OF AFRICA Nurrudin Farah and Binyavanga Wainaina on video Videos of Nurrudin Farah in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina at the Nairobi Forum and tributes by the two writers to Chinua Achebe, are now on YouTube. An interview by Tom Odhiambo with Nurrudin Farah is also available. NURUDDIN AND BINYAVANGA IN CONVERSATION (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbNk_uztZ8s) | TRIBUTE BY NURUDDIN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIWIgnTyrx0) | TRIBUTE BY BINYAVANGA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrnwsR4JoSk) | NURUDDIN FARAH INTERVIEW (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPYiltC5OA) NAIROBI FORUM HORN OF AFRICA The Future of Humanitarian Action In June the Nairobi Forum hosted a consultation on the future of humanitarian action in the Horn of Africa and East Africa with the Feinstein International Centre at Tufts University (http://sites.tufts.edu/feinstein/) and InterAction (http://www.interaction.org) . The Forum also held a book launch for The Golden Fleece: Manipulation and Independence in Humanitarian Action (Kumarian (https://www.kpbooks.com/title/The_Golden_Fleece_Manipulation_and_Independence_in_Humanitarian_Action) 2012) edited by Antonio Donini (Feinstein International Centre). TUFTS UNIVERSITY (http://sites.tufts.edu/feinstein/) | INTERACTION (http://www.interaction.org) | THE GOLDEN FLEECE (https://www.kpbooks.com/title/The_Golden_Fleece_Manipulation_and_Independence_in_Humanitarian_Action) SOUTH SUDAN Access to justice in South Sudan Since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between South Sudan and Sudan, rural areas of South Sudan have suffered an upsurge of inter-communal violence, sometimes politically motivated. Killing, looting of livestock, abduction of women and children, gender-based violence and destruction of property are commonplace; perpetrators largely enjoy impunity. A report by David K. Deng of the South Sudan Law Society (SSLS), Challenges of Accountability: An assessment of dispute resolution processes in rural South Sudan (http://www.pactworld.org/sites/default/files/Challenges%20of%20Accountability_FINAL%20May%2016.pdf) , shows how judicial systems in Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei and Upper Nile states are trying and failing to meet the needs of rural populations caught up in cycles of conflict. A report launch will take place on Thursday 20 June, from 8.30am to 1.00pm, followed by a lunch, at the Quality Hotel in Juba. International organizations and the UN are requested to send a maximum of two people per organization and RSVP to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) . DOWNLOAD REPORT (http://www.pactworld.org/sites/default/files/Challenges%20of%20Accountability_FINAL%20May%2016.pdf) | RSVP (mailto:[email protected]) SUDAN Crisis of citizenship in Sudan As fighting continues in Kordofan and Darfur, in Sudan, a report by the Kampala-based International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI), The disappearance of Sudan? Life in Khartoum for citizens without rights (http://refugee-rights.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0117875782648cffccbeceb43&id=d1c264c759&e=a04349ba02) , examines the experiences of people from South Sudan and Western Sudan displaced by war to Sudan's capital, Khartoum. The report argues that at the root of Sudan's wars and the dislocation of its peoples is a crisis of citizenship that must be resolved if the state is to survive. DOWNLOAD REPORT (http://refugee-rights.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0117875782648cffccbeceb43&id=d1c264c759&e=a04349ba02) Sent to [email protected] — why did I get this? 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