The
November 2005 issue of FMR provides an opportunity for reflection
and debate on the protection, return and reintegration of displaced
Sudanese and the opportunities for building a new Sudan.
Two
key actors in the peace process have assisted the editors: Professor
Francis Deng (former Sudanese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
and from 1992 to 2004 the Representative of the UN Secretary-General
on Internally Displaced Persons) and Jon Bennett, UN Team Leader,
Joint Assessment Mission (JAM), Sudan.
The
special issue – the longest ever issue of our magazine
- presents 36 articles written by Northern and Southern representatives
of the Government of National Unity, the UN, World Bank, Sudanese
and international NGOs and representatives of diaspora communities.
Supported by key Sudanese and international policymakers, the
project informs a wider audience - in Sudan, the diaspora, the
humanitarian and donor communities and the general public - of
the mechanisms by which reconciliation has been promoted, the
implications of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and challenges
for the six-year transitional period.
Financial support
from the US Institute
of Peace, UNDP Sudan and UNICEF Sudan is
enabling many thousands of additional copies to be distributed, in
Arabic and in English, inside Sudan. 30 November sees simultaneous
launch events in Khartoum (hosted by UNDP), in Juba and in the House
of Commons, London (hosted by the UK Associate Parliamentary Group
for Sudan).
