Post-Referendum Sudan: Prospects for Peace

Thursday, February 17, 2011
Speakers
Katherine Almquist Knopf
Former Assistant Administrator for Africa, USAID
Payton L. Knopf
International Affairs Fellow in Residence, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider
Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations

USAID's Katherine Almquist and CFR's Payton L. Knopf discuss the political implications of Southern Sudan's nearly unanimous vote to secede from the North, as part of the CFR's Academic Conference Call series.

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