Contemporary Sudan Center for Studies and Development Second Core Meeting Second Enlightenment Season Topic: Center’s Work Agenda and Participants Date: April 2003 Countries: Libya and Egypt. Location: Tripoli, via Messenger from Sudan.
Content: Throughout the first of April, the initial meetings of the Contemporary Sudan Center members were held at the specified place and time.
First: Meeting Agendas: A. Formulating general ideas and clarifying the role the center should play during the democratic change movement in Sudan. B. Creating a general plan for enlightenment in the field of human rights. C. Forming a fieldwork team in Libya and Sudan to lead the season. D. Facilitating member interactions across borders and accepting new members. E. Seeking stable financial support sources to sustain the center’s operations.
Second: Agreed Actions: The administrative and advisory councils of the Contemporary Sudan Center will remain unchanged until the first comprehensive conference of all center members. The fieldwork team in Libya was formed as follows:
- Monaem Suleiman Atroun – Center President, Fieldwork Teams Supervisor, and Building Officer.
- Ahmed Yahya – Fieldwork Team Leader, Center Coordinator
- Osman Noreen Abkar – Administrative Officer
- Al-Zein Abdullah Mohammedin
- Saeed Mohammed Ali – Communication Coordinator
- Hadi Tom – Enlightenment Activity Coordinator
- Abdul Hamid Abdullah – Human Rights Coordinator
- Ibrahim Bahr Yahya – Education Schools Coordinator
- Hashim Hashim – Teaching and Training Coordinator
Third: Emergency Programs for 2004 and 2005:
- Collaborating with the International Fact-Finding Committee on Genocide Crimes in Darfur.
- Attending the Darfur Dialogue Conference in Libya in 2004 and 2005.
Fourth: Key Programs Executed During the Second Enlightenment Season:
- Approximately 35,000 Sudanese (in Tripoli, Benghazi, Kufra, and smaller cities) of all ages participated in human rights and democracy enlightenment courses.
- Implemented 17 literacy schools for teaching basic literacy in Arabic and English, as well as computer and internet skills.
- Graduated between 300-400 students from each school, totaling 3,950 graduates from literacy and computer schools.
- Coordinated with enlightened groups and established a coordination of civil society organizations in the diaspora.
- Published 2,000 copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Published 2,000 copies of the Rome Statute for prisoners.
- Established the Sudanese Organization for Monitoring Human Rights Violations against African Refugees in Libya.
- Established the Contemporary Sudan Institute for Education.
- Established the Bolad Institute for Vocational Training.
- Distributed 200 publications to traditional leaders at the Tripoli conference.
- Collected evidence with forms for the International Fact-Finding Committee formed by the UN on the Darfur issue, Committee of Judge Cassese.
Fifth: Enlightenment Thinkers, Illumination, and Press Monitoring for the Second Season:
- Semi-annual Enlightenment Newsletter for 2003.
- Second half Enlightenment publication for 2003, annual meeting summary for 2003.
- Semi-annual Enlightenment Newsletter for 2004.
- Second half Enlightenment publication for 2004, annual meeting summary for 2004.
- Semi-annual Enlightenment Newsletter for 2005.
- Second half Enlightenment publication for 2005, annual meeting summary for 2005.
- Semi-annual Enlightenment Newsletter for 2006.
- Second half Enlightenment publication for 2006, annual meeting summary for 2006.
- General report of the second Enlightenment season.
Sixth: Members of the Contemporary Sudan Center Participating in the Second Season:
- Name: Signature:
- Monaem Suleiman Atroun
- Ahmed Yahya
- Osman Noreen Abkar
- Al-Zein Abdullah Mohammedin
- Suleiman Suleiman
- Saeed Mohammed Ali
- Hafez Younis Mohammed
- Ibrahim Bahr Mohammed
- Abkar Al-Saghir
- Hadi Yahya
- Hassan Omar
- Abdullah Abkar
- Mohammed Ibrahim Zarif
- Hadi Tom
- Abdul Hamid Abdullah
- Ibrahim Bahr Yahya
- Hashim Hassan
- Bakri Ibrahim
- Adam Abkar Yahya
Second Group – Additional Leaders (Coordinators of Associations):
- Mahdi Abu Shaw
- Mohammed Abdul Aziz
- Adam Abdullah Mohammed
- Mahjoub Abu Shura
- Jedo Mohammed Douma
- Al-Tayeb Mohammed
Participants via Skype:
- Ibrahim Sharaf Al-Din
- Abdullah Ahmadi
- Ahmed Adam Abu
Seventh: Challenges: The President of the Contemporary Sudan Center for Studies and Development survived four assassination attempts in Libya, surviving three, but in the fourth, he sustained an injury that caused 95% vision loss in his right eye.
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