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Governing after conflict: Lessons from South Sudan

Lessons learnt of the process around the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and its impact on the current peace process.

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Véronique Dudouet, Berghof Foundation, Germany, and Terrence Lyons, Gerorge Mason University, USA, in conversation with our moderator Åse Gilje Østensen, Royal Naval College.

Véronique Dudouet is the Director for the “Agents of change for inclusive conflict transformation” programme at the Berghof Foundation. Her current areas of interest include negotiation and third-party intervention in asymmetric conflicts; transitions from armed to unarmed insurgencies; inclusive post-war governance and participatory action research. She holds an MA and a PhD in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford, UK.

Terrence Lyons is Associate Professor at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. His research has focused on the relationships between protracted civil wars and processes of political development and sustainable peace, with a particular focus on Africa and on policy issues. He has participated in talks to resolve conflicts in Ethiopia and served as Senior Advisor to the Carter Center’s project on post-conflict elections in Liberia (1997) and Ethiopia (2005). He has served as an international election observer in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Bangladesh, Benin, and Liberia. He has worked as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development and the World Bank on issues relating to democracy and conflict.

Terrence Lyons received his doctorate in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies.