Post-Conflict Security in South Sudan: From Liberal Peacebuilding to Demilitarization

✍ Scribed by Nyambura Wambugu

• Publisher: I.B. TAURIS
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Just eight years after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and two years after gaining independence, the world's newest nation state descended once more into violence and civil war. Why have policies of liberal peacebuilding failed to bring lasting stability to the region? And what now for South Sudan? Nyambura Wambugu, an academic with more than ten years' practical advisory and policymaking experience, adopts a holistic and multi-thematic approach to answer these crucial questions. Rooting her analysis as deeply as the initial militarisation of Sudan in the 1950s, Wambugu considers the complex and overlapping issues that have afflicted the region since 2005. In the process, Wambugu demonstrates the failure of the billions of dollars spent on liberal peacebuilding and elucidates the possibility of demilitarisation as a lasting and sustainable alternative. Such issues are common in post-conflict states, and the book therefore acts as a case study for better understanding the deeply entrenched causes of instability and identifying the most sustainable paths to peace. This meticulously researched account is essential reading for all students, researchers and policymakers working on post-conflict societies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Appendices
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
1 Introduction
Research
Arguments and structure
Themes
Liberal peacebuilding in South Sudan
Exploring demilitarization literature
2 South Sudan
Introduction
Politics of state formation: past and present
Towards the post-colonial state
The legacy of slavery and the slave trade
The identity complex in the Sudan
The politics of identity in post-colonial Sudan
Ethnic identities and conflict
Conflict identities in South Sudan
Conclusions
3 History of militarization
Introduction
Contextualizing militarization in South Sudan
Pre-independence – before 1955
Post-independence
The First Civil War (1955–72)
The Torit Mutiny
The Second Civil War – The SPLA (1983–2005)
The southern mutinies
The Nasir Declaration
The politics of oil and war
Post-CPA militarization
Juba Declaration of 8 January 2006
Conclusion
4 Contextualizing security restructuring and reforms
Introduction
Security sector reforms (SSR) in South Sudan
SSR and development
Implementing DDR
The challenges of DDR
Conclusion
5 Realizing security restructuring and reforms
Restructuring security
Force reduction
SPLA restructuring
National Intelligence and Security Service in South Sudan’s post-conflict security
Reform by institutionalization
The South Sudan Police Service
From the shadows of the SPLA
Beyond the empirical challenges: contextualizing the challenges to policing
Need not dogma
The legacy of war: societal constructions of security and the paradox of armed youth
The cattle raider
Conclusions
6 Restructuring governance
Introduction
Restructuring governance
Building or rebuilding governance?
Rethinking the restructuring of governance in South Sudan
Building a party from the ashes of a rebel movement: from SPLA to SPLM
SPLM dominance: undemocratic democracy?
The elections
A flawed election and resurgence of armed rebellions in South Sudan
Elections and the re-emergence of war
Democratizing governance
Changing military structures and attitudes
Illiteracy and democracy
Institutions and restructuring governance in South Sudan
Conclusion
7 Arms and livelihoods
Introduction
Social economic development and demilitarization
A history of underdevelopment
Taking stock – South Sudan’s Development Plan
This gun is our food – militarized livelihoods
The long road back – demilitarizing livelihoods in South Sudan
The gun for a hoe: agriculture as the answer?
Realizing agriculture – the empirical
Conclusion
8 Conclusion
Beyond December 2013
Contextualization of the South Sudan liberal peacebuilding experience
Reviewing key themes
Security
Governance
Arms and livelihoods
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index