Marvin Koop

Marvin Koop has lived and worked in Sudan for decades. He led the Fellowship for African Relief program based in Khartoum for seven years, with programming that included famine and disaster relief followed by resiliency and recovery initiatives in Kordofan State and emergency nutrition and sanitation initiatives supporting some of
the millions of Southern Sudanese IDPs in displaced camps around Khartoum. Since 2000, he has engaged in supporting Sudanese civil society and community leaders in their desire for sustainable conflict transformation and self- determination. He served as the Conflict and IDP Senior Technical Advisor for UNDP Sudan, working with Dr. Francis Deng in the establishment of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. Marv was the Chief of Party of the USAID OTI and OTCM programs for Sudan from 2007 to 2011, and then in South Sudan until 2014. Since 2001, starting with support to the Nuba Ceasefire Agreement, much of his focus has been on the Three Areas and the 'Tamazuj' border regions of Sudan and South Sudan, promoting people-to-people peace dialogues and conflict transformation approaches.