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Sudan
Project
Project
Overview
In an effort to promote the long term resolution of the conflict in Sudan, the Public International Law & Policy Group has provided legal assistance related to the implementation of the North/South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), advocated for an end to the genocide in Darfur, prepared a briefing book for the Darfur negotiations, traveled to Sudan to work with local partners on the issue of law reforms required by the CPA.
Implementing
the North/South Comprehensive Peace
Agreement
The Public
International Law & Policy Group was partnered with the
Sudan Peace Support Project to provide legal assistance with
implementing the North/South Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Currently, PILPG is providing legal assistance with
developing mechanisms for the sharing of natural resources,
provincial administration, demilitarization, and
preparations for the referendum.
Darfur
Peace Negotiations
The Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) is
currently applying its extensive expertise in peace
negotiations to assist parties involved in the 2007 Darfur
Peace Negotiations held in Tripoli, Libya. To this
end, PILPG recently created the Peace Agreement Drafting
Guide: Darfur. In 2006, PILPG partnered with the
United States Institute for Peace and the
Sudan Peace Support
Project to provide legal assistance on the implementation of
the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005.
The
Peace Agreement Drafting Guide: Darfur
The Public International Law & Policy Group's (PILPG)
Peace Agreement Drafting Guide: Darfur is a comprehensive
peace agreement drafting handbook tailored to the Darfur
peace negotiations. The drafting guide presents core
elements of relevant topics, outlines the Darfur Peace
Agreement (DPA) provisions related to those topics, and
provides sample language parties may wish to consider when
drafting future
provisions.
Darfur
Genocide
PILPG maintains relationships with several NGOs and
generates materials on topics related to the Darfur conflict
including genocide and victim
compensation.
Early in the Darfur conflict PILPG issued a detailed legal
analysis explaining why the killings in Darfur constituted
genocide and the obligation of the international community
to take action to stop the killings. The analysis was
based on a careful examination of the Genocide Convention
and case law produced by the International Tribunals for the
Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. First hand accounts from
refugees were also used to make the determination. In 2005
Jamal Jafari, a PILPG Advisory Council Member and former
Senior Research Associate, traveled to the UN Refugee camps
in eastern Chad to interview refugees for the State
Department's Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project
administered by the Coalition for International Justice.
This information was used to merge legal analysis with the
facts on the ground to determine that the definition of
genocide under the Convention was satisfied. The document
has been widely disseminated and used within government
circles both in the U.S. and abroad to support the finding
that the crimes in Darfur amounted to genocide.
Currently PILPG is providing position papers on the status
of genocide in Darfur, and the demonstrations necessary to
prove genocide no longer continues.
Sudan
Law Reform Conference
In September 2006, two members of PILPG participated in the Sudan Law Reform Conference in Khartoum, Sudan sponsored by the United States Institute for Peace, the United Nations Mission in Sudan and the Afhad University for Women. For the conference, PILPG completed an analysis of the status of new legislation and law reforms required by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the Interim National Constitution, and the Interim Constitution of Southern Sudan.
Policy
Planning/Negotiation Simulations
To train
parties in negotiating techniques and to assist in the
development of an innovative diplomatic solution to the
Sudan conflict, PILPG prepared a policy planning negotiation
simulation. The purpose of the simulation is to
surface critical issues and test new approaches to resolving
the conflict.
Sudan
Negotiation Simulation
Publications
"Genocide in Darfur: A Coward's Way Out," PILPG Op-Ed by Jamal Jafari and Paul R. Williams (October 22, 2007).
"Prospective Solutions to the Failure to Implement an Administration in the Abyei Area,"
A report released by the Public International Law and Policy Group with The Sudan Peace Support Project (October 2007).
"Governance
without
Government",
A report drafted by Kush, Inc. as commissioned and released by the Public International Law and Policy Group and the former Sudan Peace Support Project, (August 2007).
"On
the Brink of a New Tragedy in
Darfur,"
PILPG Commentary by Jennifer Anderson Lewis and Sebastian R.
Astrada (November 10, 2005).
"Word
Games: The UN and Genocide in
Darfur,"
Jamal Jafari and Paul R. Williams,
The
Jurist
(March 17, 2005).
"Genocide
in Darfur: A Legal
Analysis,"
PILPG Legal Analysis (September 2004).
"'Never
Again', Again: Darfur, the Genocide Convention, and the Duty
to Prevent
Genocide,"
Jamal Jafari,
Human
Rights
Brief
(2004).
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