South Sudan's Cessation as a Conflict Resolution Strategy



Abstract

The focus of this research paper is to analyze the South Sudan's Cessation as a Conflict Resolution Strategy. The paper highlights the peace resolution initiatives both on the international and the domestic fronts and either they have remained affective for the Sudanese in eliminating the civil war and getting their lives back to normal. The research relies on the secondary data research and information collection through online journals, books, and scholarly articles. This literature review gives a holistic understanding of conflict resolution and how affective they have been in restoring the civil system in Southern Sudan.

Table of Contents

Introduction2

Current Situation of Conflict4

Research Purpose5

Secondary Research and Findings5

The Data Source5

Southern Sudan Cessation to Conflict Resolution5

Political Developments and Legislative8

Conflict and the Need for Cessation of Conflict10

Collaborative for Peace12

Law Enforcement and Justice Administration14

Social Challenges15

Conclusion15

South Sudan's Cessation as a Conflict Resolution Strategy

Introduction

The political momentum since the independence of Southern Sudan is without any certainly require a lot of supporters of the Movement / Army People's Liberation Sudan (SPLM / A) to revisit the North-South issue as it was drawn and frozen in common sense, political discourse and academic analysis for nearly half a century (Yongo,2007). How many times have we heard that this war was between the Arab Muslim north and South African Christian and animist? We'll have to accept that reality is a little more complicated and this complexity is integral to the definition of citizenship in the North and South Sudan. A historical analysis of the conflict show that the emphasis of this dimension religion or ethnicity has not always existed and often corresponded to the influence or desire to attract the support of specific sectors of international opinion in the early 1960s, the European missionaries in the 1990s or that of the American religious right.

Background of the Conflict

The First Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1955 to 1972 between the northern and southern Sudan that called for greater regional autonomy. Half a million people died in the seventeen years of war, which can be divided into three stages: initial guerrilla warfare, the Anyanya and the Liberation Movement of Southern Sudan. However, the agreement that ended the fighting in 1972 failed completely and restarting a conflict in the north and south during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983 - 2005) (Yongo, 2007). The period between 1955 and 2005 is sometimes considered as a single conflict with a ceasefire eleven years that separated two phases of violence. Until 1946 the British Empire ran the southern and northern Sudan as separate regions. At that time, the two areas were merged into a single administrative region as part of a British strategy applied in the Middle East (George, 1994). This act was done without consulting the southerners, who feared they were subjected to political power in the north. South Sudan was inhabited primarily by Christians and animists and SSA as culturally, while most northerners are Muslims who consider themselves culturally Arab (Yongo, ...