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Author(s): | Ylönen, A. |
Date: | 2016 |
Title: | Reflections on peacebuilding interventionism: State- and nationbuilding dilemmas in Southern Sudan (2005 to the present) |
Volume: | 28 |
Number: | 2 |
Pages: | 213 - 223 |
ISSN: | 1478-1158 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1080/14781158.2016.1159548 |
Keywords: | Interventionism Peacebuilding Statebuilding Nationbuilding South Sudan |
Abstract: | In 2005 Southern Sudan emerged from a long period of protracted civil war. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement marked the beginning of a period of post-war peacebuilding concentrating on statebuilding. However, since 2005, the much-needed gradual process of building a unified nation and inclusive national identity has been largely neglected. Instead, there has been emphasis on achieving ‘peace-through-statebuilding’ that has contributed to a highly exclusive social, economic, and political order dictated by the leadership of the dominant rebel movement turned government, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). This essay reflects on peacebuilding interventionism, and state- and nationbuilding in Southern Sudan since 2005. It argues that this overall process dictated by the SPLM/A leadership, focusing on security and state, excluded the majority of Southern Sudanese from the peace dividend and economic and political opportunities. Further, the exclusive top-down SPLM/A-centric view of the nation marginalized part of the population and contributed to the continuing political instability and armed violence orchestrated by the leading individuals and other military men. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Embargoed Access |
Appears in Collections: | CEI-RI - Artigos em revista científica internacional com arbitragem científica |
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