Abstract

NASCIMENTO, Daniela. From war to peace in Sudan: the Comprehensive Peace Agreement’s shadows. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2011, n.32, pp.33-43. ISSN 1645-9199.

In the current study of conflicts, dominant visions tend to underline the decisive role of primordial ethnic or religious identities. This primordialist perspective, however, takes attention away from other important causes that contribute to the emergence and perpetuation of conflict, namely deep socioeconomic inequalities between groups. Departing from Sudan’s North-South conflict, its origins and the evolution in the conflict resolution and peacebuilding models that culminated with the signature of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, we argue that effective and sustainable peace strategies in Sudan (and elsewhere) imply addressing the more structural inequalities at stake and the deconstruction of simplistic views of the role of ethnicity and religion.

Keywords : Sudan; Comprehensive Peace Agreement; inequalities; conflicts.

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