Global Review focuses on China’s role in the two Sudans

Saferworld has collaborated with the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) to develop the Winter 2012 issue of its Global Review journal, focusing on China's role in international conflict management in Sudan and South Sudan.

China’s Special Representative for Africa, Ambassador Zhong Jianhua, and the EU Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan, Dame Rosalind Marsden, have both contributed to this special issue. Other articles have been written by experts from the Center for West Asian and African Studies of SIIS, Fudan University, the University of Juba, and the Africa-Asia Centre of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Saferworld’s Thomas Wheeler also writes about the links between economic cooperation and conflict in South Sudan.

Saferworld’s China programme includes a focus on conducting research and facilitating dialogue around the impact that Chinese development assistance is having on peace and conflict dynamics in Sudan and South Sudan.  In August 2012, Saferworld’s China programme accompanied a delegation of five civil society members and academics from Sudan and South Sudan to China. The delegation, which travelled to both Beijing and Shanghai, sought to present alternative and constructive views to Chinese stakeholders on how China can best support stability in – and between – their countries. They met with three official foreign policy think-tanks, the Deputy Director of the Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Chief Country Risk Analyst at China’s Exim Bank, and several prominent Chinese academics.

A roundtable on ‘China and the Two Sudans’ was held by the SIIS and Saferworld in Shanghai. The roundtable agreed to collaborate on an academic paper on the topic of China’s role in the two Sudans which was published in last month’s Global Review.

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