{"id":7846,"date":"2015-09-09T13:09:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=7846"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:25","slug":"south-sudan-struggles-for-peace-for-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/event\/south-sudan-struggles-for-peace-for-gender-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: Struggles for Peace &#038;  for Gender Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Institute of African Studies&nbsp;presents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;South Sudan: Struggles for Peace &amp;&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">for Gender Equality&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tag Elkhazin<\/strong>, an independent consultant operating under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subsaharacentre.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Subsahara Centre<\/a> with over 25 years of experience working throughout Africa, including on security sector reform, water &amp; sanitation and capacity-building in South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&amp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Riya William<\/strong>, Civic Education Officer with the <a href=\"http:\/\/mundrireliefanddevelopment.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mundri Relief and Development Association<\/a> &nbsp;and president of Play for Peace in South Sudan. She is currently part of the Sister-to-Sister Mentorship program of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelwomensinitiative.org\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel Women\u2019s Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Event&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/South-Sudan-Umeme.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Poster<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For further information on recent political events in South Sudan, please review the <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Signed-Peace-Agreement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Agreement&nbsp;on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan<\/a> (signed in Addis Ababa on 17 August 2015) and the<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/GRSS-reservations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> Reservations of the Government of the Republic of South Sudan <\/a>(signed in Juba on 26 August 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is part of IAS&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/events\/umeme-african-flashpoints\/\" target=\"_blank\">Umeme: African Flashpoints<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-7846","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2015-09-23T13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2015-09-23T14:30:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":"PA","cu_event_meeting_room":"433 (History Lounge)","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":"null","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"African.Studies@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/7846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/7846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7851,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/7846\/revisions\/7851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}