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Alan Goulty

Senior Scholar
Africa Program

Contact Information:
T 202-691-4000 // F 202-691-4001
Expertise:
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
;
U.S. Foreign Policy
;
Sudan
;
Middle East and North Africa
Affiliation:
Secretary and Trustee of an English-registered charity, Together for Sudan, and of Friends Together for Sudan, a not-for-profit organization incorporated in Virginia
Wilson Center Project(s):
"Peacemaking in Sudan"
Term:
Mar 01, 2009
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Feb 28, 2013

Alan Goulty retired in 2008 after 40 years service in the British Diplomatic Service, including postings as Ambassador to Tunisia (2004-8) and Sudan (1995-9), and as the UK Special Representative for Sudan (2002-4) and Darfur (2005-6), when he led the UK team in the Naivasha and Abuja peace talks.  He was Director (Assistant Secretary-equivalent) for the Middle East and North Africa in the FCO from 2000-2002 and has also served in Cairo, Washington, Khartoum and Beirut.  He was a Fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard from 1999-2000.                                                                                                                                                                                                           


Education


BA (Hons) in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1968 and MA in 1971.BA (Hons) in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1968 and MA in 1971.
 

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Tunisia and the Arab Malaise

January 25, 2011 // 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Alan Goulty, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Centerand former British Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia David Ottaway, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Centerand former Bureau Chief, Washington Post, Cairo
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The Future of Northern Sudan: An SPLM-North Sudan View

March 23, 2011 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Steve McDonald, Consulting Director of the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity; Alan Goulty, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Malik Agar Eyre, Governor of Blue Nile State, SPLM; Abdel Aziz Adam EI Hilu, Deputy Governor of Southern Kordofan and Deputy Chairman, SPLM; Yasir Said Arman, Secretary General, SPLM

United We Stand, Divided We Fall:The Sudans After the Split

Mar 30, 2012
The paper gives a valuable update on current events, including the ongoing conflicts in Abyei, South Kordofan, and the Nuba Mountains, the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), North and South conflicts on oil revenue, and internal political rivalry and governance issues.
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