He has a decades-long role both as negotiator and
mediator in the peace processes in Sudan/South Sudan/Darfur, and is currently the National Minister of Investment in South Sudan.
At PRIO he met with Research Professor Øystein H. Rolandsen and Research
Director Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, as well as Hilde Frafjord Johnson, former Special
Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission
in the Republic of South Sudan. She is currently Special Adviser at the European Institute of Peace and
an Associate Researcher at PRIO.