http://www.gurtong.net RSS feeds for Gurtong Trust 60 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/10181/Rift-Valley-Institute-Field-Courses-2013.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=10181 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=10181&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/10181/Rift-Valley-Institute-Field-Courses-2013.aspx VIEW THIS EMAIL IN YOUR BROWSER | FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND Rift Valley Institute Field Courses 2013 Who's Who of the Courses • Testimonials • Application Deadline 31 March What RVI Field Courses offer • Intensive week-long immersion in knowledge crucial for those working in and on the regions. Delivered through a carefully-planned syllabus—seminar groups, presentations, lectures and set reading. • Focus on cultural understanding through field trips, documentary films, engagement with teachers and students of local educational institutions and participation in local sporting events. • High staff/student ratio—seminar-style teaching to ensure effective interaction between teachers and participants. Opportunities outside of course times for informal discussions with teachers and fellow participants. Who teaches Courses are taught by a team of regional and international specialists—academics, researchers and development practitioners—with international professional reputations and a long-term commitment to the region. • Horn of Africa teachers have included Mark Bradbury, Ken Menkhaus, Sally Healy, Lee Cassanelli, Christopher Clapham, Jabril Abdulle, Berouk Mesfin, Dereje Feyissa, ... • Sudan and South Sudan teachers have included Atta el-Battahani, Alfred Lokuji, Jerome Tubiana, Justin Willis, Cherry Leonardi, Gerard Prunier, Jok Madut Jok, ... • Great Lakes teachers have included Jason Stearns, Emily Paddon, René Lemarchand, Filip Reyntjens, Jean-Paul Kimonyo, Jean Omasombo, Koen Vlassenroot, ... What the course fee covers • Full board and accomodation for seven nights. • All local transport and excursions. • Course materials (preparatory reading, annual coursebook, USB flash disk including a variety of resources). • Instruction and supervision from a dozen or more teachers over the course of six days. Who participates • Multilateral organisations — NATO, EU, and UN agencies including FAO, UNICEF, WFP, OCHA, UNDP, UNHCR, UNEP, ... • iNGOs — including Saferworld, IRC, HRW, OSF, MSF, CEWARN, Oxfam, Crisis Action, Trocaire, Enough, ... • Governments and diplomats — includes representatives from Holland, Denmark, Norway, UK, Canada, US, ... • Researchers — from Chatham House, ICG, Stanford, Adam Smith Institute, Max Planck, UoL, ISS, FCO, ... • Private sector organisations — KPMG, Ford, Proseco BV, ... • Civil society — local NGOs, educational institutions, ... What participants take with them • An extended professional and personal network, including key regional and international specialists as well as fellow colleagues working in the region and in similar areas of expertise. • Access to a wealth of core knowledge on the region equivalent to a full university term (three US course credits). • Solid insights into the history and the current political, cultural, and economic landscape of the region. What alumni say about the courses “Content was excellent with a lot of ground covered on really pertinent topics. The speakers were of an excellent caliber, a good mixture of overview, in-depth knowledge, and thought-provoking topics. I particularly enjoyed the African speakers [...] I will leave with a much deeper knowledge of a complex region. The quality of RVI Great Lakes exceeds other courses in terms of depth reached and width of subjects covered and wide range of experts present.” - Ian Harvey, Founder and Director, Kimbilio Congo. Great Lakes Course 2012 “It’s been invaluable — very well designed, with excellent content. This sort of thing should be mandatory pre-posting for development and diplomatic staff working in Africa.” - Jeremy Armon, Senior Governance Advisor, DfID. Horn of Africa Course 2011 “The training was excellent — a mini university course. The discussion forums were particularly good as a way of examining the content of the lectures. Much better than other courses. - Tarig Hilal, Senior Program Manager, Conflict Dynamic International. Sudan and South Sudan Course 2012 "I have been privileged to attend two of the three courses of the RVI, on the Horn of Africa and on the Great Lakes. I attended the first one prior to taking up my post as EU Ambassador to Ethiopia, and the second one due to my sheer interest in developments in the Great Lakes Region. They are high level, very participative, and hands on courses. It is extremely educating to spend a week with highly qualified staff providing extensive material, and very motivated students from diversified backgrounds." - Xavier Marchal, EU Ambassador to Ethiopia. Horn of Africa Course 2010, Great Lakes Course 2012. Click here to read more testimonials >> The Rift Valley Institute The RVI is a non-profit research and training organization working with communities and institutions in Eastern and Central Africa. Programmes connect local knowledge to global information systems, aiming to modify development practice. They include field-based social research, support for indigenous educational institutions, in-country training courses and a digital library. APPLY NOW | 2013 COURSE PROSPECTUS | PROSPECTUS DU STAGE 2013 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:23:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:10181 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/8167/BOOK-LAUNCH-Compromising-with-Evil-An-archival-history-of-greater-Sudan-2007-2012.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=8167 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=8167&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/8167/BOOK-LAUNCH-Compromising-with-Evil-An-archival-history-of-greater-Sudan-2007-2012.aspx www.CompromisingWithEvil.org Eric Reeves, 22 October 2012 The extensive electronic text I am today making fully available—at no cost—attempts to contribute to the archival account of conflict, and its consequences, throughout greater Sudan over the past five years. The text comprises numerous analyses and publications focusing on South Sudan, the border regions, Abyei, and the continuing human catastrophe in Darfur. It is above all an effort to ensure that we do not forget or deny the suffering of people throughout greater Sudan—not only in Darfur and South Sudan, but in Blue Nile and Kordofan, Nubia, the eastern states (Gedarif, Red Sea, Kassala), and Abyei. These are people who have collectively endured unimaginable suffering and losses over more than five decades of virtually uninterrupted civil war. I have also been motivated in writing and editing what appears here by a passionate desire to hold fully accountable the men in Khartoum who refuse to cease their brutal assaults on humanity throughout greater Sudan—and just as importantly, to hold accountable as well those within the broader international community who bear most responsibility for providing the enabling impunity to Khartoum's murderous National Islamic Front/National Congress Party. In some quarters, the history of the period covered by this archival account is already being re-written—particularly about Darfur. It is perhaps an inevitable impulse felt by interested parties to rewrite key parts of this history in ways that efface their own error, ignorance, and moral misprision. By including extensive selections from contemporaneous human rights reports and humanitarian assessments, as well as on-the-ground news reporting and analyses by regional experts, I hope to have made impossible certain kinds of prevarication and tendentious narratives. I have of course done much more than cull evidence from contemporaneous sources—some of them perforce confidential. This is not merely an assemblage but an organization of materials designed to highlight particular trends, point to the moments of most consequential decisions, and establish as clearly as possible the causal connections between various Sudan policies and developments on the grounds.. Too often the consequences of policy decisions—and non-decisions—go insufficiently analyzed. The move into the present moment, the current diplomatic exigencies, the most pressing of humanitarian crises—all end up contributing to a destructive amnesia about the past, even the very recent past. If there is an overall conclusion that I reach, it is that policy decisions, especially those of the United States during the Obama administration, have been badly compromised by a relentless expediency that takes the form of "moral equivalence." By "moral equivalence" I mean the various distorting representations, disingenuous linkages, and specious comparisons that have been used to equate the actions, statements, and attitudes of the Khartoum regime with its various opponents in greater Sudan. Typically, the purpose of such expediency is not difficult to discern: for example, by establishing a specious "moral equivalence" between the Government of South Sudan and the NIF/NCP regime, the Obama administration aims to push the GoSS into a more tractable negotiating position, no matter what the actual moral, political, and diplomatic equities involved. The most obvious results of such equivocation are evident in Abyei. The other strategy that emerges clearly in this archival history is a deliberate ignorance, often taking the form of a factitious skepticism. Here the Obama administration has plenty of company—in Europe, the UN, the AU, and the Arab League. Whether it be the ongoing large-scale violence and suffering in Darfur, the clear evidence of genocidal intent in the Nuba Mountains beginning in June 2011, the horrific humanitarian indicators in eastern Sudan, Khartoum's continued bombing of the sovereign territory of South Sudan (attacks repeatedly confirmed, without publication, by the UN Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS), or the deliberate destruction of agricultural production in Blue Nile and South Kordofan—to the extent possible, these realities are made subordinate, even invisibly so, to the demands of "peace negotiations." This willingness to accommodate Khartoum's atrocity crimes in the putative interests of diplomacy has a long and ugly history, and much of it emerges in this archival account. Such expediency also accounts for the tendentious re-writing of history by various actors whose actions have contributed so much to the extraordinary survival of the NIF/NCP regime—now in its 24th year of power, its President charged by the International Criminal Court with genocide, its Defense Minister charged with multiple crimes against humanity, and many other senior officials simply awaiting ICC indictment. If I have succeeded even partially in my efforts here, it will be because I have—with many colleagues—found the means to justify the words offered as testimonial to this eBook by Lt.-General (ret.) Roméo Dallaire, UN force commander in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide: "The contents of this work provide the empirical basis for renewed and increasing efforts to stop the atrocities in Sudan, or at very least a historical record to guard against claims that we simply did not know what was happening." Few understand so well the insidious nature of so many claims that "we didn’t know what was happening." -- Eric Reeves Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 413-585-3326 ereeves@smith.edu Eric Reeves' new book-length study of greater Sudan (Compromising With Evil: An archival history of greater Sudan, 2007 - 2012) is available in eBook format, at no cost: website completion date: October 22, 2012 www.CompromisingWithEvil.org Websites: www.sudanreeves.org www.sudanbombing.org www.CompromisingWithEvil.org Skype: ReevesSudan Twitter: @SudanReeves Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:22:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:8167 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/7726/2013-2014-competition-for-the-Reagan-Fascell-Democracy-Fellows-Program.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=7726 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=7726&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/7726/2013-2014-competition-for-the-Reagan-Fascell-Democracy-Fellows-Program.aspx Call for Fellowship Applications: Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program National Endowment for Democracy. Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:26:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:7726 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/7338/Call-for-Fellowship-Applications-Competition-for-the-Reagan-Fascell-Democracy-Fellows-Program.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=7338 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=7338&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/7338/Call-for-Fellowship-Applications-Competition-for-the-Reagan-Fascell-Democracy-Fellows-Program.aspx Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program National Endowment for Democracy. Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:53:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:7338 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/6653/Help-Budding-South-Sudanese-Artists-Perform-in-London.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=6653 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=6653&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/6653/Help-Budding-South-Sudanese-Artists-Perform-in-London.aspx "This will be a truly historic moment for the world’s newest nation." Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:41:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:6653 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/6426/Revised-Call-for-Applications-Papers-for-the-Professor-Ahang-Beny-Scholarship.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=6426 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=6426&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/6426/Revised-Call-for-Applications-Papers-for-the-Professor-Ahang-Beny-Scholarship.aspx "The submissions should address issues that are of “relevance” and import to South Sudanese." Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:11:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:6426 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/6305/Norwegian-Peoples-Aid-NPA-CALL-FOR-MEDIA-TRAINING.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=6305 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=6305&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/6305/Norwegian-Peoples-Aid-NPA-CALL-FOR-MEDIA-TRAINING.aspx NORWEGIAN PEOPLES AID, SOUTH SUDAN PROGRAM CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMLAND AND RESOURCES RIGHTS PROJECT Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:32:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:6305 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/6087/South-Sudan-is-Open-for-Business.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=6087 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=6087&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/6087/South-Sudan-is-Open-for-Business.aspx The Republic of South Sudan is asserting its place as the 54th country in Africa. After more than 20 years of ravaging war, the newest country in the world is ready for investment and business. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:23:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:6087 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/5838/South-Sudan-Travel-Notice-Transition-of-Pass-Permits-to-Visas.aspx#Comments 3 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=5838 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=5838&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/5838/South-Sudan-Travel-Notice-Transition-of-Pass-Permits-to-Visas.aspx Issuance of Visas Through South Sudan Embassies Kenya SEE RELATED INFORMATION Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:07:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:5838 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/5542/Competition-for-the-Reagan-Fascell-Democracy-Fellows-Program--2012-2013.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=5542 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=5542&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/5542/Competition-for-the-Reagan-Fascell-Democracy-Fellows-Program--2012-2013.aspx 2012-2013 competition for the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C. Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:48:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:5542 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/5498/Central-Bank-Shortens-Currency-Conversion-Period-18th-July--1st-Sept-2011.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=124&ModuleID=519&ArticleID=5498 http://www.gurtong.net/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=5498&PortalID=0&TabID=124 http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/ArticleView/mid/519/articleId/5498/Central-Bank-Shortens-Currency-Conversion-Period-18th-July--1st-Sept-2011.aspx Today, the Central Bank of South Sudan (CBSS) has shortened the currency conversion period to one and a half months beginning from the 18th July 2011 and ending on 1st September 2011. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:28:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:5498