How Micro Level Conflicts Fuel National and Regional Wars in East Africa:A Case Study of Sudan
Burns, John
2005
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On January 9th 2005
through the facilitation of the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the
Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM/A), the two
main parties to North South conflict in Sudan, signed a 'comprehensive peace agreement'
purposing to end the longest running Civil War in Africa. The conflict in Sudan is multi
dimensional and has ... read moreoperated at several different levels; this is particularly evident
in the South where the Civil War landscape has been superimposed with intra regional and
localized micro conflicts. These south-south conflicts may well constitute the greatest
challenge to a sustainable peace in southern Sudan. This paper will examine the linkages
between the different levels of conflict, and aims to present the argument that micro
conflicts are not by-products of the Civil War but provide the kindling that fuels
regional and national conflict, and indeed that the roots of the Civil War can be traced
back to local conflicts. If this is the case it will have far reaching implications on
the post conflict peace building environment, and on the IGAD peace process as a whole,
which has already received criticism for not addressing regional and micro conflict at
least at the political level (Sudan Mirror
2004).
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2005.read less - ID:
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- tufts:UA098.007.001.00001
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