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Title:Sudan: Liberation Movements, Regional Armies, Ethnic Militias and Peace
Author:Young, John
Year:2003
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:30
Issue:97
Period:September
Pages:423-434
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:civil wars
Military, Defense and Arms
nationalism
Politics and Government
Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/06
Abstract:The conflict in Southern Sudan is a war of resistance. Southern Sudanese feelings of anti-Arabism and anti-Islam are, however, not an expression of a deeply felt nationalism. The war of resistance has not weakened parochial ethnic and regional loyalties among the people, and the SPLM/A (Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement/Army) and Southern Sudanese intellectuals have done little in the fifty years since independence to develop a robust Southern Sudanese national consciousness and identity. The SPLM/A has not come to grips with tribalism. It has failed to resolve problems of leadership, and this is linked to the lack of an ideological basis from which to direct the struggle. Furthermore, it has difficult relations with civil society. This paper considers the issue of governance in Southern Sudan, taking into account the administrative and political capacity of the SPLM/A, as well as the challenge posed by a host of rival armed movements loosely grouped under the umbrella of the South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF), plus a dozen or more tribal militias. The paper concludes that the SSDF poses a major challenge to the prospects of peace in Sudan. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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