Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond

by Nouwen, Sarah M. H.; James, Laura M.; Srinivasan, Sharath

• ISBN13: 9780197266953
• ISBN10: 0197266959
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-01-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Sarah M. H. Nouwen, University of Cambridge,Laura M. James, Oxford Analytica,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).

Table of Contents

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