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and Chief of Staff for the Facilitator of the Inter-Congolese Dialogue

2000–2003. He has worked as Programme Director for Save the Children

UK in the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and southern Sudan, and, earlier, as

Manager of Juba Boatyard (1976–1981). He was Co-Director of the 2004

Rift Valley Institute Sudan Course and Director of the 2010 Great Lakes

Course.

Suliman Baldo is Africa Director at the International Center for

Transitional Justice. He has also worked for Human Rights Watch and

the International Crisis Group. He was a Lecturer at the University of

Khartoum, Field Director for Oxfam America (covering Sudan and the

Horn of Africa), and was the founder and Director of Al-Fanar Center

for Development Services in Khartoum.

WEndy JamEs CbE is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at

the University of Oxford. Her books include The Ceremonial Animal: A New

Portrait of Anthropology (2004) and War and Survival in Sudan’s Frontierlands:

Voices From the Blue Nile (2007). She has acted as a consultant for UNHCR

and other humanitarian bodies, in southern Sudan and in Ethiopia, and

is Vice-President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.

The Sudan Handbook, edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok. © 2011 Rift Valley Institute and contributors

(www.riftvalley.net).