Munzoul Abdalla Munzoul Assal

Munzoul Assal is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum and Senior Researcher at the Chr Michelsen Institute, Bergen. He also holds the position of Professor II at the department of social anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway. Before he was the Director of the Mamoun Beheiry Centre for Economic and Social Studies in Africa (2015-2017), Director of the Peace Research Institute at the University of Khartoum (2018-2020), and Dean of Scientific Research (2021-2023). Assal was a visiting professor at the universities of Paris 8 (2009) and Sharjah, UAE (2020-2021). He was a member of the Board of Trustees, the Arab Council for Social Sciences (2015-2023). In 2023 Assal was voted in as an honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

The project

Title: Sudanese diaspora in France and its contribution to conflict and/or peace in Sudan: an anthropological perspective

Selection of publications

• 2019 with Leif Manger, Fekadua Adugna, Munzoul Assal, and Eria Onyango, Borderlands dynamics in Eastern Africa: cases from Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda. Addis Ababa: OSSREA
• 2015 with B. Casciarri and F. Ireton (eds.), Multidimensional changes in Sudan 1989-2011: Reshaping livelihoods, political and identity conflicts in Sudan. New York: Berghahn Books.
• 2022 “Forging the Juba Peace Agreement: the role of national, regional and international actors,” African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, 12(2): 5-22.
• 2020 with B. Casciarri, A. Franck, S. Manfredi. “Ethnicité, religion, nationalisme: intersections et ambiguïtés dans un Soudan en movement,” Cahiers d’Études Africaines 4(240): 761-778.
• 2020 “A critical look at civil society and peace building in Sudan,” Bulletin of Sudanese Studies.