Female genital cutting (FGC) plays a major role in increasing the gender gap in the Sudanese community. The FGC experience breaks women’s self-trust from childhood and makes them submissive and subservient to a world controlled by men.
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This study investigates the connection between borders, society and environment in the borderlands between Sudan and South Sudan and attempts to expand our understanding of the process of border-making and its effects on the local population and on the spatial dynamics.
Why has legal and judicial reform in the Arab region failed in promoting the rule of law, ensuring judicial independence and safeguarding democratic values: prerequisites for economic, political, and social development? This dissertation attempts to address this failure in the c…
This dissertation examines the specific forms of embodied suffering war and its refugee aftermath brings to female Sudanese refugees currently living in post-revolution Cairo, Egypt in order to illustrate the suffering and healing enacted within everyday life. These women, displ…
This is an examination of the biographical dictionary written by Muhammad al-Nur b. Dayf Allah (d. 1809), commonly known as Tabaqat Wad Dayf Allah. This Tabaqat contains two hundreds and seventy biographical notices on the lives of saints, jurists, pious men and poets who lived …
This research is concerned with the problems and possibilities of combining diverse forms of peacebuilding in the same peacebuilding space. It analyses patterns of interaction between various forms of peacebuilding using a framework of hybridity. Within debates on peacebuilding …
This study explores and critically examines the role of indigenous mechanisms (the Inter-Tribal Reconciliation Conferences-ITRCs) in resolving tribal conflicts in South Darfur State of Western Sudan. The fundamental question raised by this study is: have these reconciliation con…
Over the past two decades, protracted conflicts have become a prominent feature in many African countries. In Sudan, it is almost nine years since the crisis in Darfur manifested itself to the international community in the form of massive displacement and killings following the…
Background: Researchers have demonstrated an association between income inequality and poor health outcomes over recent decades. We sought to understand the effects on health of both inequality and political armed conflict in Sudan, a northeast African country with seven interna…
This dissertation focuses on investigating the causes of malnutrition in the crisis-affected region of Darfur, Sudan, on exploring the relationship between household headship and food security and on examining the role of care in determining malnutrition in emergencies. For the …
To date, the arrest warrants issued by the ICC against the Sudanese President, as a suspect of heinous international crimes committed in Darfur, have not been enforced. This thesis questions and analyzes the reasons behind this failure. The thesis also considers the question whe…
Knowledge-Based Decision Support System (K-BDSS) are a group of tools capable of displaying variations and their relevant details, a variety of filtered knowledge, integrating traditional DSS with the advances of expert systems and various analyses of the available knowledge. Th…
Throughout this thesis, the author analyzes the controversy surrounding the prosecution of African Head of states for international crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes with a particular focus on the indictment of the sitting Head of State of Sudan, Om…
Sudan has experienced conflict and war since gaining independence from Great Britain in 1956. This thesis will focus on the second civil war that began in 1983 and ended with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005, and the roles certain non-governmental organiz…
This study mainly attempted to achieve the following research objectives and sub-objectives:(1) To examine the extent of information system use, usage patterns and usage determinants among the four listed telecommunication companies in Sudan; (2) To propose and test a model that…
This thesis aims to examine and critique the United States' historical response to genocide. Beginning with the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide in 1948, the author will highlight the lives of Raphael Lemkin and Senator William…
Each year, the international community pumps over 40 billion in humanitarian assistance into the world's most volatile environments. Without proper precautions, these resources can be hijacked by militias and, in some instances, even state militaries, benefiting the powerful at …
The purpose of this study was to describe and interpret transpersonal approaches to trauma recovery within the Sudanese culture. Traditional Sudanese culture has effective trauma-coping strategies that can be understood within a transpersonal and cultural frame. This study posed…
The international community is failing to meet its moral and legal obligations to some of the world's most vulnerable people in combating human trafficking. The beginning of this paper examines the issue of trafficking, how it affects women and children displaced by conflict and…