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SUDAN: THE POLITICS OF WAR AND PEACE  

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK

Sudan: The Politics of War and Peace sheds valuable light on the conflict in South Sudan which has afflicted the country for nearly five decades taking an enamors toll on the livelihood and security of the population of the south in the particular and the country at large.

 The book also shows  the historical evolution of the Southern resistance which began immediately before independence through the Anya l movement which spanned seventeen years until an agreement was singed in 1972 in Addis Ababa.

Second, it highlights why and how the second phase of the southern resistance movements started in 1983 and continued until the early part of 1004 . Further, the book tries to analyze the inter-play between the Northern Political actors and their southern counter-parts in the context of the overall social, political and constitutional history of the Sudan.

Third, the book examines the responses of successive Sudanese governments to the southern rebellion movements led to Anya l  and ll. it then shows the circumstances which led to the emergence of the mainstream political and military movements known as the SPLM/A and how and why other smaller movements such as the SPDR split from it and subsequently broke away from the government to rejoin it and form a united front in the early years of 2000.

Fourth, Sudan: The Politics of War and Peace  also looks at the various mediation efforts undertaken by different organizations such as IGAD and countries of the middle East and North Africa as well as Nigeria, Germany and Norway which took open and discrete initiatives to resolve the conflict. Finally, it assesses the changed policy of United States and special measures which it took it leverage the peace process in league with the European Union for the successful conclusion of the signing of various protocols on security arrangements, wealth and power sharing as well as the status of the contested areas in the Sudan via the negotiations which took place at Machacos and Naivasha. 

Library of congress classification: Sudan: The North - South conflict, History, politics, Diplomacy, Horn of Africa and Regional relations, Meditation Efforts<Mediating Countries, Meditation Documents etc.

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