Peace in Kurdistan Social Ecology Network will hold a session on  “Water Security and the Struggle for Self-determination in Sudan on Sunday 31 July at 6.30pm UK time.

Two of the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign members, Mohammed Elnaiem and Nick Hildyard, will make 15-20 minute presentations, followed by a group discussion.  The meeting will be chaired by Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley.

The topics to be addressed are as follows:

Since the mass uprising of December 2018, a revolutionary situation has been unfolding in the Sudan.  Popular protests have swept the country in two successive waves.  In the more recent wave, following the military coup in October of last year, an impressive network of neighbourhood-based resistance committees has taken on a significant degree of protagonism.  These developments deserve the close attention of anyone interested in the theory of democratic confederalism, especially given the grassroots, direct-democratic credentials of the resistance committees.  In this webinar, we will seek to introduce a social-ecological dimension into the discussion about the Sudanese revolutionary situation.  

Mohammed Elnaiem will discuss the main features and dynamics of this Sudanese struggle for self-determination in the 21st century, and will address the ecological causes and consequences of the recent political developments there. 

Nick Hildyard will discuss the impact of mega-water projects in the region.

Mohammed Elnaiem is a PhD Candidate in Sociology who is training to become a historical sociologist with a focus on the history of capitalism and the global reparations movement. His project is to investigate whether capitalism, patriarchy and slavery can be seen as disparate phenomena or different facets of the same totality. To address this question, he puts various sociological and historiographical traditions into conversation with one another, including – but not limited to – works from the black radical tradition, dependency theory, political Marxism, and feminist political economy.  His research interests include imperialism, settler colonialism and racial capitalism.

Nick Hildyard works with The Corner House, a UK-based solidarity and mutual learning group. He has worked in many countries in solidarity with communities affected by large infrastructure projects, including with the communities opposed to the Merowe Dam on the Nile.

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