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Title: | Sudan: International Responses to War in the Nuba Mountains |
Author: | Bradbury, Mark |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 77 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 463-474 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | Nuba civil wars development cooperation human rights Inter-African Relations international relations Politics and Government Military, Defense and Arms nationalism |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249808704326 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=492C8AD28557BBA19D5F |
Abstract: | Examining the nature of the war in the Nuba Mountains, Sudanese State policy and the international aid regime in Sudan, this paper argues that the Nuba are paying the price for the international community's wider humanitarian policy and conflict management strategy in Sudan. This raises fundamental concerns about the nature of the current international engagement in Sudan. First, the paper argues that the failure of the international community to uphold the provisions of international humanitarian law and to defend the entitlements of war-affected peoples, reflects the selective application of humanitarian principles, and their subordination to international political concerns. Second, it challenges assumptions made about the function of aid in conflict management, and in addressing the causes of armed conflict. The Sudanese government's military campaign in the Nuba Mountains is linked to an exploitative development process - a process that the international community and the UN not only fail to address through humanitarian programmes such as Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), but one in which they are also accomplices. Rather than enhancing prospects for peace, international developmental interventions in the Nuba Mountains are effectively supporting government policies that are threatening the very survival of the Nuba peoples. Bibliogr., sum. |