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Title: | The Impasse in the IGAD Peace Process for Sudan: The Limits of Regional Peacemaking? |
Author: | Affendi, Abdelwahab El- |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 100 |
Issue: | 401 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 581-599 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | African organizations conflict resolution Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Drought and Desertification Politics and Government Inter-African Relations Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518702 |
Abstract: | The Intergovernmental Authority for Drought and Development (IGADD) was launched in Djibouti in 1986. The six founding members were Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda (Eritrea joined on independence in 1993). This article examines the progress - or rather, the lack of it, of the initiative launched by IGADD in 1993 to achieve peace in Sudan. In 1996, the organization's name was changed to IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority for Development) to emphasize a shift from the original focus on the drought emergency towards a more long-term orientation. The IGAD(D) initiative is a model for regional cooperation in Africa and has received a high level of international support. However, it has yet to achieve success in spite of running a high-profile mediation effort for more than seven years. The article offers a summary of the history of the peacemaking process in Sudan and examines the obstacles and problems that have delayed its success. It also looks at some of the implications for regional peacemaking in Africa, and concludes by offering some recommendations for breaking the deadlock, amongst others through the involvement of international actors and other regional parties, in particular Egypt. Notes, ref., sum. |