Munzoul Assal
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Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC)
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Anthropologist focusing on migration, refugees, internally displaced persons, and peace building.
Munzoul Assal holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen, Norway. Prior to joining CMI as Senior Researcher he was Professor of social anthropology at the University of Khartoum, Director of the Peace Research Institute, and Dean of Scientific Research. He also served as the Director of the Mamoun Beheiry Centre for Economic and Social Studies in Africa (2015-2017). Assal was visiting professor at the University of Paris 8 (2009), the University of Sharjah, UAE (2020-2021). Assal is Professor II at the department of social anthropology at the University of Bergen.
Assal has coordinated and led several MFA and NORAD funded projects. He led NORHED I "Borderlands dynamics in East African: anthropological capacity building in Eas African universities" (2014-2018), NORHED II "Refugees on the move: South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda" (2021-2025), and is co-leader "Sudan Norway Academic Collaboration SNAC" (2022-2026). Assal research focuses on migration, refugees, internally displaced persons, conflict and humanitarian studies.
Assal was member of the Board of Trustees, the Arab Council for Social Sciences (2015-2023). In 2023 he was voted in as an honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.