Dr Riek Machar, Vice-President of the South Sudan Regional Assembly, with participants of Creators of Peace Circle in Juba.

The Vice-President of the South Sudan Regional Assembly, Dr Riek Machar, opened a five-day workshop in Juba led by a team from IofC's Creators of Peace programme. The workshop, in October, was for members of the Regional Assembly, the National Assembly in Khartoum and for peace and social activists. Angelina Teny, Deputy Minister for Petroleum and Energy, hosted the team from eight countries who were visiting South Africa, Kenya and Sudan during September and October to conduct a series of women's 'Creators of Peace Circles'.

Peter Everington, who received Sudan's highest decoration for his services to education, testified to numerous acts of solidarity between the Sudanese and British people at a public forum at the Initiatives of Change centre in London.

Peter Everington (r) with Dr. Mahmoud Abdulla, Dean of Students at Gezira University in 1983

Peter Everington returns to Sudan to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Independence.

The harrowing pictures of starving children may seem a million miles away from the peace and beauty of the Swiss mountains. But Mountain House in the village of Caux, high above Lake Geneva, holds a key to the resolution of such tragedies.