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- Title
BUILDING A STATE WITHOUT THE NATION? "PEACE-THROUGH-STATEBUILDING" IN SOUTHERN SUDAN, 2005-2011.
- Authors
Ylönen, Aleksi
- Abstract
In January 2005 the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) brought Africa's longest-running war in Southern Sudan to its formal end. Essentially a two-party power-sharing treaty between the Government of Sudan and the largest rebel organization in Southern Sudan, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), the CPA, which provided a roadmap for peace between the main warring parties and facilitated the secession of Southern Sudan in July 2011, faced a number of challenges due to being imposed over a complex landscape of local political actors. This article analyzes the external intervention during the CPA implementation in Southern Sudan in 2005-2011. It treats state-building and nation-building as separate in order to demonstrate the limits of the current intervention aimed at building a legitimate and authoritative state. The article argues that the external intervention in Southern Sudan, characterized by "peace-through-state-building" approach, was unable to ensure peace during the period examined due to its lack of focus on nation building.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN Sudan (Sudan); PEACEBUILDING; SUDAN People's Liberation Movement (Political party : Sudan); NATION building; LEGITIMATION (Sociology); SUDANESE politics &; government
- Publication
UNISCI Discussion Papers, 2013, Issue 33, p13
- ISSN
1696-2206
- Publication type
Article