SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Radio Dabanga - 70 Years later: Sudan’s ongoing peace dilemma

18/8/2020: Radio Dabanga - 70 Years later: Sudan’s ongoing peace dilemma, by Yasir Zaidan

 Yasir Zaidan, a politics academic specialising in the Horn of Africa argues that the Juba peace process will not secure peace without a “paradigm shift that envisions the peace process as a nation-building project.”

 Zaidan suggests the Juba peace process is “making the same historical mistakes that various Sudanese regimes and armed groups committed in the past” in their failure to address the root causes of conflict, such as uneven development.

 Drawing parallels between Juba and with the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that which led to South Sudan’s secession, Zaidan wrote that both “exclude the majority of Sudanese people” by enabling armed groups to represent the conflict areas.

 Zaidan also argues that the new regional negotiation tracks in areas with no history of post-independence conflict “transformed the Juba peace process into a political market place to satisfy by power seeking elites”.