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Author : Gabriel Achoth Deng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wars and a New Vision for the Sudan written by Gabriel Achoth Deng and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis M. Deng
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815723691
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (236 download)
Download or read book War of Visions written by Francis M. Deng and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified in racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious terms. The identity question related to how such concepts determine or influence participation and distribution in the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the country. War of Visions aims at shedding light on the anomalies of the identity conflict. The competing models in the Sudan are the Arab-Islamic mold of the North, representing two-thirds of the country in territory and population, and the remaining Southern third, which is indigenously African in race, ethnicity, culture, and religion, with an educated Christianized elite. But although the North is popularly defined as racially Arab, the people are a hybrid of Arab and African elements, with the African physical characteristics predominating in most tribal groups. This configuration is the result of a historical process that stratified races, cultures, and religions, and fostered a "passing" into the Arab-Islamic mold that discriminated against the African race and cultures. The outcome of this process is a polarization that is based more on myth than on the realities of the situation. The identity crisis has been further complicated by the fact that Northerners want to fashion the country on the basis of their Arab- Islamic identity, while the South is decidedly resistant. Francis Deng presents three alternative approaches to the identity crisis. First, he argues that by bringing to the surface the realities of the African elements of identity in the North-- thereby revealing characteristics shared by all Sudanese--a new basis for the creation of a common identity could be established that fosters equitable
Author : Justin D. Leach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786733706
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book War and Politics in Sudan written by Justin D. Leach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 9 July 2011, South Sudan became an independent state after more than half a century of civil conflict wrought with human rights abuse. Indeed, the post-colonial history of Sudan has been characterised by two Civil Wars spanning almost two decades each: the first from 1955-1972 and the second from 1983-2005. With questions of national and regional identity at the heart of the conflict, the Sudanese Civil Wars have highlighted key questions about the post-colonial epoch. Justin Leach's War and Politics in the Sudan offers a comparative analysis of the First and Second Sudanese Civil Wars, along with the peace treaties which ended them. Most historians have seen the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement as a stepping stone to renewed civil conflict in 1983 rather than as a settlement in its own right. Leach, on the other hand, believes that the size of Sudan precludes the application of traditional theories of conflict resolution. The introduction of natural resources brought a new facet to the already complex Second Sudanese Civil War. Oil, for instance, internationalised the conflict and added yet another prism through which groups in the conflict could view their identity. By tracing the evolving demands of the southern insurgents and the regimes they fought against, Leach outlines the main challenges to the Sudanese nationalist project, including the strength of southern regional identities, the resurgence of political Islam in the north as well as the sheer duration of the conflict. War and Politics in the Sudan thus offers a fresh and timely analysis of a region long beset by civil conflict, interethnic violence and poverty, a region whose historical narrative has recently taken on a new trajectory. Those interested in post-colonial Sudanese history are sure to find Leach's arguments both persuasive and pertinent.
Author : Gabriel Meyer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802829337
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (293 download)
Download or read book War and Faith in Sudan written by Gabriel Meyer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the tragic civil war in Sudan is more than a skillful journalist's firsthand report. Meyer also offers a deeper understanding of the cultural, racial, and religious fault-lines that divide the world at the start of the 21st century.
Author : Mansour Khalid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136179240
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book War and Peace In The Sudan written by Mansour Khalid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Nearly half a century ago the first flares of Sudan's civil war were enkindled. Today, as the world enters a new century and a new millennium, Sudan's civil war has degenerated into an inferno of carnage and destruction. Sudan's war, however, is no different from wars elsewhere; it is an entangled political, cultural and social weave with equally intricate international ramifications. This volume charts Sudanese’s history of conflict.
Author : Mansour Khalid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136179178
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book War and Peace In The Sudan written by Mansour Khalid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Nearly half a century ago the first flares of Sudan's civil war were enkindled. Today, as the world enters a new century and a new millennium, Sudan's civil war has degenerated into an inferno of carnage and destruction. Sudan's war, however, is no different from wars elsewhere; it is an entangled political, cultural and social weave with equally intricate international ramifications. This volume charts Sudanese’s history of conflict.
Author : Emmanuel Jal
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312383223
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book War Child written by Emmanuel Jal and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary memoir tells the true story of a former child soldier, who survived and escaped a violent life to become Africa's number-one hip-hop artist and an international ambassador for children in war-torn countries.
Author : David Claydon
Publisher : William Carey Library
ISBN 13 : 9780878083633
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (836 download)
Download or read book A New Vision, a New Heart, a Renewed Call written by David Claydon and published by William Carey Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Branch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199782156
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Displacing Human Rights written by Adam Branch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Western intervention is a ubiquitous feature of violent conflict in Africa. Humanitarian aid agencies, community peacebuilders, microcredit promoters, children's rights activists, the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the U.S. military, and numerous others have involved themselves in African conflicts, all claiming to bring peace and human rights to situations where they are desperately needed. However, according to Adam Branch, Western intervention is not the solution to violence in Africa but, instead, can be a major part of the problem--often undermining human rights and even prolonging war and intensifying anti-civilian violence. Based on an extended case study of Western intervention into northern Uganda's twenty-year civil war, and drawing on Branch's own extensive research and human rights activism there, this book lays bare the reductive understandings motivating Western intervention in Africa, the inadequate tools it insists on employing, its refusal to be accountable to African citizenries, and, most important, its counterproductive consequences for peace, human rights, and justice. In short, Branch demonstrates how Western interventions undermine the efforts Africans themselves are undertaking to end violence in their own communities. The book does not end with critique, however. Motivated by a commitment to global justice, it proposes concrete changes for Western humanitarian, peacebuilding, and justice interventions as well as a new normative framework for re-orienting the Western approach to violent conflict in Africa around a practice of genuine solidarity. "A key strength of the book is its ability to analyse and reveal common patterns in seemingly disparate and complex empirical instances of counterproductive human rights interventions in Uganda. ... [T]his book should be required reading for all those working on various themes in Africa today."--The Journal of Modern African Studies "This book provides a pessimistic, but much needed, critique of the history of foreign intervention in Northern Uganda. ... Responsible discussions of foreign policy must consider the ways in which 'great power politics' can hurt people in the name of protection; this book is an excellent place to start that discussion." --The Christian Science Monitor
Author : S. Poggo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230617980
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The First Sudanese Civil War written by S. Poggo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive investigation, discussion, and analysis of the origins and development of the first civil war in the Sudan, which occurred between 1955 and1972. It was the culmination of ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, political, and economic problems that had faced the Sudan since the Turco-Egyptian conquest of the country in 1821. The hostilities between the Northern and Southern regions of the Sudan also involved foreign powers that had their own geopolitical interests in the country. The first Sudanese civil war is a classic example of intra-regional and inter-regional conflicts in Africa in the 20th century.
Author : Salah M. Hassan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801475948
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan written by Salah M. Hassan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most comprehensive, balanced, and nuanced account yet published of the Darfur conflict's roots and the contemporary realities that shape the experiences of those living in the region.
Author : Howard Adelman
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592211319
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)
Download or read book War and Peace in Zaire-Congo written by Howard Adelman and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1994 Rwandan Genocide continues to have serious repercussions for peace and stability in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Here, the contributors look at the continuation of the conflict in the territory of Zaire, ultimately asking how best to handle a problem which has been a source of instability for years - the problem of refugee warriors.
Author : Caroline Lamwaka
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9970196758
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Raging Storm written by Caroline Lamwaka and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Raging Storm: A Reporter’s Inside Account of the Northern Uganda War, 1986-2005 is a highly personal and inside account of the northern Uganda war by a young woman whose early encounter with the conflict was as an on-the-ground war correspondent. Caroline Lamwaka’s experiences as a war-time journalist inform the narrative, the research and the broader perspective of an academically trained war and peace researcher. The book examines four phases of the northern Uganda war. These are: the war in Acholi, Lango and Teso; the peace efforts to end the war; the impact of the war; and coping with the impact of insurgency. Caroline Lamwaka joins other authentic voices examining the northern Uganda war.
Author : Joseph Otieno Wasonga
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429662785
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army written by Joseph Otieno Wasonga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates the sharp contrast that emerged between demands of the norms of international rule of law and the interests of conflict resolution at a local level in northern Uganda. Examining how the nature and character of complex conflict situations like that of northern Uganda confounds the application of transitional justice mechanisms, The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army reveals the enduring dilemmas of transitional justice. Scrutinising the competing interests of punitive approaches to contemporary transitional justice and the political considerations for peace that may entail entering into dialogue with criminals, this book approaches such concepts from the perspective of international standards and the standpoint of the victims. While exploring the complexities of transitional justice processes, the book interrogates prevailing assumptions, proposing a broader conception that places at the centre local structural conditions associated with a conflict. The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army will be of interest to scholars and students of international law, African politics and conflict studies.
Author : Victor Adetula
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100034276X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in Africa written by Victor Adetula and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines challenges to the effective operation of regional economic communities (RECs) with regards to peacebuilding in Africa. Critically examining these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on comparative analysis of the status, role, and performances of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), it examines particular constraints to their effective participation in regional initiatives. Focussing on inadequate technical capabilities, the complicity of state and non-state actors in conflicts within a region, the domestic politics of member states, it additionally addresses related theories and practices of peacekeeping, security, development, and the peacebuilding nexus. It also engages provisioning, regionalism, and regional peacekeeping interventions, the legal and institutional framework of RECs, and civil society and peacebuilding. Fundamentally, the book asks how effective the alliances and partnerships are in promoting regional peace and security and how much they are compromised by the intervention of external powers and actors, exploring new ideas and actions that may strengthen capacities to address the peacebuilding challenges on the continent effectively. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics and studies, peace and security studies, regionalism studies, policy practitioners in the field of African peacebuilding, and more broadly to international relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at: http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003093695, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : Mark Kersten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191082937
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Justice in Conflict written by Mark Kersten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the effects of interventions by the ICC on peace, justice and conflict processes. The 'peace versus justice' debate, wherein it is argued that the ICC has either positive or negative effects on 'peace', has spawned in response to the Court's propensity to intervene in conflicts as they still rage. This book is a response to, and a critical engagement with, this debate. Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court's effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. This framework is applied to two cases: Libya and northern Uganda. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the core of the book examines the empirical effects of the ICC on each case. The book also examines why the ICC has the effects that it does, delineating the relationship between the interests of states that refer situations to the Court and the ICC's institutional interests, arguing that the negotiation of these interests determines which side of a conflict the ICC targets and thus its effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. While the effects of the ICC's interventions are ultimately and inevitably mixed, the book makes a unique contribution to the empirical record on ICC interventions and presents a novel and sophisticated means of studying, analyzing, and understanding the effects of the Court's interventions in Libya, northern Uganda - and beyond.
Author : Mareike Schomerus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108626572
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Lord's Resistance Army written by Mareike Schomerus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is one of Africa's most notorious armed rebel groups, having operated across Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When they entered the Juba Peace Talks with the Ugandan Government in 2006, the peace deal seemed like a gift to fighters who had for years barely been surviving in Central Africa's jungles. Yet the talks failed. Why? Based on exclusive interviews with LRA fighters and their notorious leader Joseph Kony, Mareike Schomerus provides insights into how the LRA experienced the Juba Talks, revealing developing dynamics and deep distrust within a conflict system and how these became entrenched through the peace negotiations. In so doing, Schomerus offers an explanation as to why current approaches to ending armed violence not only fail but how they actively contribute to their own failure, and calls for a new approach to contemporary peacemaking.
