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About the Sudan Experience Project

Project Goals:

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is currently working with the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) to interview American and international participants in the negotiation and implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in southern Sudan. The goal of this project is to identify lessons learned from this complicated and still incomplete process. Such lessons may be applied to resolve similar conflicts elsewhere.

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed on the 9th of January, 2005 in Nairobi, Kenya, is an agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLM/A) which has put an end to twenty-two years of civil war. The CPA is composed of three parts:


  1. An agreement on permanent cease-fire arrangements - the Agreement on Permanent Ceasefire and Security Arrangements Implementation Modalities During the Pre-Interim and the Interim Periods – which was signed on 31 December, 2004 in Naivasha, Kenya.

  2. An agreement on the implementation of six Protocols:
    1. The Protocol of Machakos – signed in Machakos, Kenya on 20 July, 2002, in which the parties agreed on a broad framework setting forth the principles of governance, the transitional process and structures of government as well as on the right to self-determination for the people of South Sudan, and on state and religion
    2. The Protocol on security arrangements – signed in Naivasha, Kenya on 25 September, 2003
    3. The Protocol on wealth-sharing – signed in Naivasha, Kenya on 7 January, 2004
    4. The Protocol on power-sharing – signed in Naivasha, Kenya on 26 May, 2004
    5. The Protocol on the resolution of conflict in southern Kordofan/Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile States – signed in Naivasha, Kenya on 26 May, 2004
    6. The Protocol on the resolution of conflict in Abyei – signed in Naivasha, Kenya on 26 May, 2004

  3. An agreement on the International/Regional Guarantees
The full text of the CPA can be found at Relief Web under latest updates on the Sudan.

The Sudan Experience Project will create a database of interview with American and international participants in the negotiation of the CPA and with those involved thus far in the CPA’s implementation. This database will serve as a fundamental source for upcoming USIP reports and analyses of the CPA and its implementation. The database will be available online via USIP’s homepage.

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Interview Details:

This project is being conducted by the United States Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan federal institution created by Congress to promote the management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts.

ADST is located at the State Department National Foreign Affairs Training Center, and is a non-for-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to collecting oral histories. It is the only organization of its type in the U.S. the Association is comprised of retired U.S. Foreign Service Officers who are trained and have experience in debriefing current and retired U.S. and foreign officials about their experiences.

Interviews will only discuss unclassified material. All interviews will be tape-recorded, transcribed, edited (for clarity), and reviewed to ensure the confidentiality of U.S. government officials for use by USIP. All participants must read and sign a release form prior to the interview.

Those interviewed will also be asked a series of questions specific to their experience in the negotiation and/or implementation of the CPA.

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Final Products:

The Sudan Experience Project will result in the following primary deliverables:
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For further information or to volunteer for an interview, please contact:


Executive Director
executivedirector@adst.org
703-302-6991

LAST UPDATED: March 02, 2006