The South African Institute of International Affairs, Western Cape Branch invites you to a public seminar to be addressed by Dr Tim Murithi  on “The Birth of a Nation: An Independent South Sudan and the Prospects for Peacebuilding and Development”, at The Centre for the Book, 62 Queen Victoria Street, Gardens, Cape Town on Tuesday 1 March 2011 Parking is freely available behind the building after 5pm at 5:00 for 5:30 pm.

Dr. Tim Murithi is Head of the Transitional Justice in Africa Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, in Cape Town. Prior to that he headed up the Peace and Security Council Report Programme at the Institute for Security Studies, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2009), and served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK (2008). He has also worked for UCT’s Centre for Conflict Resolution (2005-2007), and for the Programme in Peacemaking and Preventive Diplomacy, in the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in Geneva, Switzerland (1995-2005). He has earned a PhD in International Relations from Keele University, UK, an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, and a BA in Psychology from Queen’s University, Canada.

He is a Visiting Professor of International Relations at Addis Ababa University, and has also served as a consultant to the African Union in Addis Ababa; to the UNDP in Sierra Leone on mediation issues; to the Crisis Management Initiative in Addis Ababa; to the University for Peace in Addis Ababa; to the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva on mediation issues; and to World Vision in Nairobi. He is on the International Advisory Boards of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and the African Peace and Conflict Journal. He is the author of over 70 publications, including two books: The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development, published by Ashgate, in 2005; and The Ethics of Peacebuilding, published by Edinburgh University Press, in 2009. He is editor of two books entitled Towards a Union Government of Africa: Challenges and Opportunities, published by the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, in 2007, and co-editor of The African Union and its Institutions published by Jacana in Johannesburg, in 2008. He is currently co-editing a book on the AU Peace and Security Council.

Please RSVP to saiia.admin@telkomsa.net or call Pippa on 021 761 4842 or 083 305 2339

Entrance for non-members is R30 or R15 on presentation of a current student identity card.

SAIIA’s Governance of Africa’s Resources Program hosted a seminar in January 2011 focused on the Southern Sudan referendum, papers from which are available on http://www.saiia.org.za/.  Below are links to recent papers and articles on Sudan by GARP deputy director Petrus de Kock:

13 January Seminar – Can Sudan’s resources be shared? Implications of the Southern Sudan referendum

http://www.saiia.org.za/saiia-spotlight/can-sudan-s-resources-be-shared-implications-of-the-southern-sudan-referendum.html

Article published in The Thinker – A night out on the town of Juba

http://www.saiia.org.za/governance-of-africa-s-resources-opinion/a-night-out-on-the-town-of-juba.html

Policy Briefing Paper – Thabo Mbeki and the long talk to Southern Sudan’s referendum

http://www.saiia.org.za/policy-briefings/thabo-mbeki-and-the-long-talk-to-southern-sudans-referendum.html