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Abstract: In her ethnography Hutu Rebels, Swedish anthropologist Anna Hedlund provides a fascinating and rare inside view of life in a rebel group, the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda). This group, mainly consisting of Rwandan Hutu that fled their country of origin in the wake of the 1994 genocide, is one of the most notorious and long-lived rebel groups active in the messy and tangled warscape of Eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo). It stands accused of grave human rights violations, including rape and massacres, which have usually been the focus in discussions of the group. Hedlund, in contrast, argues for the “need to move beyond the stage of compiling catalogues of atrocities and start to ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This anthology examines the narrative and debates about “Africa rising” in the context of governance, security, and development relationships. Editor Kenneth Omeje describes Africa rising as a “contemporary catchphrase for what many proponents perceive as the fast-moving economic, development and governance transformations” (3). The chapters are concerned with the empirical indicators of Africa rising, challenges, opportunities, and how countries fit the Africa rising description. The research offers critiques and assessments about the Africa rising narrative as well as policy recommendations. The book has nineteen chapters, including a conclusion, and this review highlights key chapters rather than attempts to ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This special issue is dedicated to a departed colleague and an eminent scholar: Prof. Samson Wassara. Samson sadly passed away on December 29, 2020. It was difficult to believe that Samson had left us. When a friend, colleague, or relative departs from this world, a vacuum is created, and those left behind seek to answer the “why now” question. However, certain situations will inevitably elude us. In any case, humans are not obliged to know everything that happens in the universe. A year earlier, we had finalized a High-Level Experts’ Seminar in Juba organized by the Government of South Sudan and the UNDP, November 5–6, 2019. Samson was the lead expert on this seminar. The purpose of the seminar was to review the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Ten years after South Sudan became an independent country, the expectation has been that the nation would be at the height of implementing efforts geared toward realizing its anticipated sociopolitical and economic goals. Instead, the country finds itself struggling to overcome one of the world’s most serious security and humanitarian crises (Kuol 2020, 64). With over 400,000 people killed, 1.8 million internally displaced, and 4 million forced to flee the country, the South Sudan civil war, which began in 2013, provides a useful case study to examine the emerging debate over the applicability and relevance of the competing state and human-centric approaches to security (Gebru 2020). The previous failed peace ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: At independence in July 2011, South Sudan took almost 75 percent of the oil fields from Sudan (Adiebo 2018) and earned approximately US$20 billion in oil revenues from 2005 to the end of 2014 (Basnett and Garang 2015). In the absence of prudent macroeconomic and fiscal management mechanisms, these immense resources triggered waves of corruption scandals, budget indiscipline, and failure to deliver services to the people. For instance, the World Bank South Sudan Country Team reported, “since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) spending had been driven by available revenue rather than by sticking to planned expenditure levels” (World Bank 2013, 16).In the Republic of South Sudan, like in other countries, each ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: One of the key measures of success for South Sudan as it transitions from civil war to peace is whether it is able to build a functional and successful transitional government within the framework of the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS). This is measured by the level of implementation of the pillars of the Revitalized Government of National Unity (RTGoNU)—security and defense, governance and administration, economy and development, and humanitarian assistance. As rightly noted by Abu Bakarr Bah (2012), protracted civil conflict and wars are rooted in fundamental problems of the society—politics, economics, and social. These problems are more ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In many ways, the South Sudan civil war, which erupted in 2013, began long before the country became independent in 2011. To a large extent, the crisis is rooted in the very nature of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) as a liberation movement. In 2008, SPLM held its Second National Convention to discuss, among other things, the vision of the movement and its transformation from a rebel movement into a political party within Sudan (Walraet 2008). During the convention, participants discussed how to forge unity within the SPLM’s leadership structure as well as reexamined the movement’s vision, which was stated in its manifesto of 1983. They also agreed to reevaluation of the movement’s performance between ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Sierra Leone’s peace consolidation and democratic transition following a devastating civil war remain a rare example of a successful post-war transition and carry lessons for South Sudan’s current conflict. However, few would have predicted that Sierra Leone would succeed. When Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war once again erupted in May 2000, the Economist (2000) declared that the country’s intractable problems epitomized all of Africa, the so-called “Hopeless Continent.” Toward the end of the war in 2000, a sizable number of peacekeeping troops—some 20,000 from both the United Nations (UN) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)—scrambled to hold together a tenuous ceasefire. When around five ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A so-called historic peace between Morocco and Israel was brokered by US President Trump and announced December 10, 2020. The deal is ambiguous and far-reaching. Should Morocco establish full open diplomatic relations with Israel, via reciprocal embassy openings, the deal would constitute a historic milestone in the two states’ relations. Yet it is not clear that the deal amounts to something significantly different than the relations the two first announced in 1994 (Laskier 2004). The agreement was described very differently by US, Moroccan, Israeli, Palestinian, and Sahrawi officials, some not even using the term “peace.” Thus, it may amount to no more than the hyperbole for which Trump became famous. By ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What does it look like when women seize the stage to tell their stories of their nation' What does the story of war, peace, and nationhood sound like when heard straight from the hearts of women' No Time to Mourn!No Time to Mourn is an anthology of raw and personal stories of love, war, and life in South Sudan told by South Sudanese women. It is a collage of eighteen short stories and memoirs, forty-eight poems, twenty-one photographs and artworks, and a song. This symphony of different art forms is the fruit of a six-day women’s retreat for eighteen South Sudanese women on the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda. Inspired by the desire to do something more about the conflict in South Sudan, OXFAM and FEMRITE ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From the National Islamic Front-backed coup in 1989 to the present, a generation of international donors, development consultants, humanitarians, academics, and diplomats—this reviewer included—has come of age careerwise working in and on Sudan and what is now South Sudan. Some were directly involved in peacemaking efforts; virtually all were impacted by them. The apex of external engagement and peace-making was in the lead up to the signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) and the subsequent interim period that closed with the independence of South Sudan in 2011. What happened after surprised some in the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: At the end of protracted civil wars, there often is a preoccupation with the predicament of former soldiers, the potential impacts of war traumas in shaping their transition into civilian life, and their ability to start afresh. In the case of the Mozambican civil war in the late 1970s and 1980s, millions of people had direct visceral experiences of brute violence and millions more had been exposed to images of deadly famine, mutilated bodies, and mass physical destruction. In the face of such protracted tragic realities, the post-civil war agreement in October 1992 was marked by a profound sense of relief but also anxieties about communal life in the future. The experiences of the soldiers and civilians in the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The oft-told migration story is one of agony and travail. Researchers have discovered the horrors of vain attempts by migrants to cross borders where the unfortunate are left to die on windswept dunes and crammed rubber boats adrift at sea. These tragedies are backdropped by an inexorable implementation of more restrictive, exclusionary, often lethal immigration policies, not least in Europe and North America. Africa-specific accounts are of young people attempting to escape an opportunity-bereft continent, where, usually, bungling governments collude with foreign extractive economies on political and economic policies that leave them with dismal future prospects.The edited volume Hope and Uncertainty in ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Kamari Maxine Clarke uses the term “affective justice” in her book to describe how feelings, spoken words, biopower, and history influence justice. Clarke’s work contributes to the debate over African states’ sovereignty and the alleged inequalities that accompany the International Criminal Court (ICC). The complex interrelationships between the victims-perpetrators approach of the ICC’s anti-impunity campaign and the Pan-Africanist pushback are products of the realities, values, and power structure of affective justice. Clarke’s revelation of affective justice shows how emotional regimes rely on Africa’s legal technocratic practices. These technocratic practices are carried out by political elites who rely on ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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