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Title: | Comprehensive Peace? An Analysis of the Evolving Tension in Eastern Sudan |
Author: | Pantuliano, Sara |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 110 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 709-720 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | civil wars underdevelopment Beja peace negotiations Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240601119281 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=45F6A2DD10C9A4578880 |
Abstract: | Eastern Sudan is the site of a little known armed struggle by popular forces against the government in Khartoum, which in turn has been engaged in counterinsurgency and repression there. A complex set of interrelated factors is driving the war, in particular the marginalization and underdevelopment among the predominant population of the Beja people, whose livelihoods are mainly based on pastoralism. The Beja are also politically alienated, and the movement of the Beja Congress has given voice to those grievances. But the Congress was excluded from the political dispensations that the South gained from its peace agreement with the North. Presently, the possibility of an escalation of the tension should not be discounted. People have lost their trust in the government, so even initiatives aimed at improving the situation locally are looked at with suspicion. Communities, government officials and armed opposition alike lament the limited involvement of the international community in eastern Sudan. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |