This report aims at assessing options for systemic conflict transformation in Southern Sudan. It was conducted in 2006/2007 by the Berghof Foundation for Peace Support (BFPS) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Download
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This paper presents the ethnic and ideological factors in the Sudan crisis as products of other processes, notably the strategies adopted by successive governments for managing the peripheries and the militarisation of society. It differs from many scholarly analyses in its emphasis on the importance of failed consolidation at the centre of power. The implication of the analysis is that Sudan faces possibly insuperable challenges in attempting to achieve democracy and a fair distribution of…
This paper (2007) examines the future of food security in Sudan by reviewing, and extrapolating from, recent patterns of trade and conflict. The paper considers important (and ostensibly encouraging) economic data and analyses some of the underlying political and economic processes driving food insecurity in Sudan. Link to publication
This report investigates the changing role of traditional mechanisms of conflict resolution (mediation, compensation and restitution) as the result of the prolonged civil war. Download
This briefing explores the roots of Sudan’s national identity crisis and addresses its stratifying implications. Download
This article reviews the formation and emergence of the SPLA/SPLM, as well its organizational structure and political developments. Link to publication
After the passage of 2 years of the post CPA period that ended the North-South Conflict, safety and security remain a challenge. Yet, there is inadequate assessment of the impact of safety and security including on the CPA. This baseline survey reveals that though the CPA has succeeded in some respects violence victimisation–orchestrated by small arms and light weapons–continue to exist. Download
The purpose of this article is to highlight the critical role of ethnic, cultural and religious diversity in peacebuilding and constitution-making in post-conflict Sudan. Link to publication
This article (2007) argues that any intervention is necessarily a political event and it supports this contention with an examination of assistance in Sudan in general and Darfur in particular. In describing the way in which donating states concentrated on the settlement between Khartoum and South Sudan to the detriment of intervention in Darfur in time to forestall massive human slaughter, the authors are pointing to political failure. Link to publication
This paper examines the history and background of the South Sudan Defence Forces, including its numerous separate components and their respective leaderships. By drawing on existing research it explores the relationship of these various elements with both the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement. Download
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