Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond

Edited by Sarah M. H. Nouwen, Laura M. James, and Sharath Srinivasan

Proceedings of the British Academy

A rich compilation of perspectives that enhances a nuanced understanding
Multiple perspectives through contributions by scholars, practitioners and scholar-practitioners which give readers access to all-round expertise
Diverse topics offer a holistic picture, from economics to DDR, mediation to self-determination
The breadth of period covered gives readers comparative insights across multiple peacemaking attempts in the Sudans over two decades
The contributors have deep and long-term or inside knowledge of many of the topics covered, distilling long or first-hand experience through their chapters

Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond

Edited by Sarah M. H. Nouwen, Laura M. James, and Sharath Srinivasan

Proceedings of the British Academy

Description

Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 ended over two decades of civil war and led to South Sudan's independence. Peacemaking that brought about the agreement and then sought to sustain it involved, alongside the Sudanese, an array of regional and western states as well as international organisations. This was a landmark effort to create and sustain peace in a war-torn region. Yet in the years that followed, multiple conflicts continued or reignited, both in Sudan and in South Sudan. Peacemaking attempts multiplied. Authored by both practitioners and scholars, this volume grapples with the question of which, and whose, ideas of peace and of peacemaking were pursued in the Sudans and how they fared. Bringing together economic, legal, anthropological and political science perspectives on over a decade of peacemaking attempts in the two countries, it provides insights for peacemaking efforts to come, in the Sudans and elsewhere.

Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond

Edited by Sarah M. H. Nouwen, Laura M. James, and Sharath Srinivasan

Proceedings of the British Academy

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Note on Contributors
Preface
1:Introduction: Peace and Peacemaking in Sudan and South Sudan, SHARATH SRINIVASAN AND SARAH M. H. NOUWEN
2:The Interlinkage between Understandings of Self-Determination and Understandings of Peace, NASREDEEN ABDULBARI
3:Making Peace on Paper Only: A View from the Blue Nile, WENDY JAMES
4:Abyei, the CPA, and the War in Sudan's New South, DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON
5:Strategic Peacebuilding and the Sudanese Peace Process, PETER DIXON
6:Peacemaking, the SPLM/A's Political Transition During the CPA Era and Conflict in the Sudans, BENEDETTA DE ALESSI
7:Fiscal Policy and Sudan's 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, EDWARD THOMAS
8:Economic Provisions of the CPA: Selective Implementation and Long-Term Consequences, LAURA M. JAMES
9:Gender and Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Post-Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) South Sudan, NADA MUSTAFA ALI
10:China and the CPA: Developing Peace in Sudan?, DANIEL LARGE
11:Natural Resources, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Darfur: The Challenge to Detraumatise Social and Environmental Change, BRENDAN BROMWICH
12:A Flawed Formula for Peacemaking and Continued Violence in Darfur: The Abuja Negotiations, 2004-2006, PARTHA MOMAN
13:Peacemaking in Darfur and the Doha Process: The Role of International Actors, ROSALIND MARSDEN
14:Why Negotiate? Why Mediate? The Purpose of South Sudanese Peacemaking, SOPHIA DAWKINS
15:How Mediators Conceive of Peace: The Case of IGAD in South Sudan, 2013-15, ALY VERJEE
16:South Sudan's long crisis of justice: Merging notions of lack of socio-economic justice and criminal accountability, MAREIKE SCHOMERUS AND ANOUK S. RIGTERINK
17:Concluding Reflections: Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement: Theories of Change, ALEX DE WAAL
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Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond

Edited by Sarah M. H. Nouwen, Laura M. James, and Sharath Srinivasan

Proceedings of the British Academy

Author Information

Edited by Sarah M. H. Nouwen, University of Cambridge, Laura M. James, Oxford Analytica, and Sharath Srinivasan, University of Cambridge

Sarah M. H. Nouwen is Reader in International Law and Co-Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She worked in Sudan for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a consultant for the Department for International Development and as a legal advisor to the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan. She is the author of Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and an Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law.

Laura James is Senior Middle East analyst at Oxford Analytica, a political risk consultancy firm. Previously, she was an affiliated lecturer teaching Middle East politics at the University of Cambridge and an independent consultant specializing in the interface between political and economic issues in the Middle East and Africa. She spent five years in Khartoum, working as an economic adviser for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the European Union. She was also an adviser to the mediation team on the South Sudanese secession negotiations. Before that, she worked as a Middle East analyst with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Sharath Srinivasan is Co-Director of the University of Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights, David and Elaine Potter Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He lived in Sudan and worked for the International Rescue Committee in the early 2000s, and has researched on Sudan ever since. He is a member of Council for the British Institute in Eastern Africa and a Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute. He is the author of the forthcoming book, When Peace Kills Politics: International intervention and unending war in the Sudans (Hurst & Co).

Contributors:

Nasredeen Abdulbari / Minister of Justice, Republic of Sudan
Benedetta de Alessi / United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Nada Mustafa Ali / University of Massachusetts
Brendan Bromwich /
Sophie Dawkins / US Institute of Peace and Yale University
Peter Dixon /
Laura M. James / Oxford Analytica
Wendy James / University of Oxford
Douglas H. Johnson /
Daniel Large / Central European University
Rosalind Marsden /
Partha Moman / independent researcher
Sarah M.H. Nouwen / Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
Anouk S. Rigterink / Princeton University
Sharath Srinivasan / Centre of Governance and Human Rights and University of Cambridge
Mareike Schomerus / Overseas Development Institute
Edward Thomas / independent researcher
Aly Verjee / Rift Valley Institute
Alex de Waal / Word Peace Foundation and Tufts University