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Sudan: Where is the Comprehensive Peace Agreement Heading?

Seminar Report
Sally Healy OBE, January 2008

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On 23 November 2007 the Horn of Africa Group held a seminar at Chatham House on Sudan and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). At a time when the CPA implementation was clearly faltering, the seminar brought together a mix of officials and opinion leaders from Sudan, together with academic specialists and foreign policy-makers. The aims of the seminar were threefold: to assess the obstacles to
implementation and what should be done to overcome them; to anticipate risks of a return to conflict and any mitigating steps that could be taken to avoid them; and to identify areas of CPA implementation where energy and attention need to be focused, whether by the local actors or by international supporters of the process.

The seminar was held under the Chatham House Rule. The participants represented a wide range of political opinion from both North and South Sudan. This summary record seeks to reflect the full range of these often quite divergent views and to capture some of the key themes that emerged during the discussion.