Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The present paper presents the results of a participatory sketching and photography exercise conducted in the Sudan to gauge how avid listeners of Ashreat Al Amal (“Sails of Hope”), an entertainment-education radio soap opera, engaged with its educational content, especially with the topic of female genital cutting (a practice that is widespread in Sudan). Our respondents’ sketches and photos suggest that they comprehended the various intersecting plotlines and educational messages of Ashreat Al Amal, that is, a more empowered status for women, abandoning harmful practices such as female genital cutting, and seeking safe motherhood and childhood. Our respondents’ sketches also suggest various degrees of emotional and personal resonance with the key plotlines and characters. The female genital cutting scenes and their deadly consequences held the most personal meaning for both male and female respondents as it closely paralleled their lived realities. Many of our respondents freely and openly shared the debilitating consequences of large families, especially on the health of women and children. Our respondents emphasized that by listening to Ashreat Al Amal they learned about, or were reinforced in abolishing the practice of female genital cutting, and giving girls and women more control of their reproductive health.

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explain the change in behavior of rebel groups toward populations they claim to represent. Drawing upon fieldwork in Sudan, Iraq, Turkey, and Colombia, it explores shifts in behavior among three rebel organizations: the PKK, the SPLA and the FARC. Each group is examined in relation to three variables: the presence of rival groups, the need for resources, and the type of resources the group is extracting. By using process tracing and two variations of Qualitative Comparative Analysis, it becomes clear that it is the presence of rivals that supplies the framework for the rational calculations of rebels.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: I conduct a detailed case study of negotiations in the Sudan to consider the interaction between various third party actors in conflict management and assess the policy implications of my analysis for conflict resolution.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Media attention to China’s foreign relations with oil-exporting countries in Africa have focused especially on two states: Sudan and Angola. The proposition that China is now supporting and protecting countries with poor human rights and corruption recor

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper will consider the impact of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005 on higher education policies and practice. First it will compare and contrast the view from the national Ministry of Higher Education with the experience of univer