The course was held under the direction of Justin Willis of Durham University. Dan Large of the Central European University was the Deputy Director of Studies. The teaching staff included Magdi el-Gizouli of Freiburg University, Joanna Oyediran, Sudan Program Officer of the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, and Douglas Johnson, author of The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars. Also teaching on the course: Jok Madut Jok, of Loyola Marymount University and the Ministry of Culture and Heritage in the Government of South Sudan; Cherry Leonardi of Durham University; Suliman Baldo, former Africa Programme Director of the International Centre for Transitional Justice; and John Ryle, Executive Director of RVI and Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, NY.