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Title: | Another Kind of War: Strategies for Transition in the Era of Negotiation |
Authors: | Phillips, Mark Coleman, Colin |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 9 |
Pages: | 1-30 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | national liberation movements peace negotiations Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations nationalism |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/84/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | This paper examines the different forces at play in the process of transition in South Africa, looking at the objectives and interests of the major contending forces and their position on negotiation, their internal divisions, and the political dangers as well as possibilities of negotiation strategies. First it looks at the National Party State which, with the increasingly apparent failure of the securocratic strategy, is moving in the direction of negotiations with the ANC. Then it deals with pressure from the US, Britain, other Western countries and the Soviet Union for all-party talks, including the liberation movement. Finally, it turns to an assessment of the implications of negotiations for the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) inside South Africa, and the ANC's concept of a negotiated settlement. To play a crucial role in this era of negotiation, the MDM has to broaden and deepen its organization, and to build the broadest possible unity of anti-apartheid forces. Note, ref. |