Bedigen, W (2020) Significance of Societal Customs in the South Sudan Civil War Resolution. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 15 (1). pp. 3-17. ISSN 1542-3166
Abstract
The South Sudan intermittent conflicts and civil wars have attracted national, regional, and international interventions. Dominated by politically led conventional ideologies of peace approaches that revolve around suppression, negotiation, and mediation, such approaches have not achieved sustainable peace in the region. The case for societal customs presented here demonstrates a contrary view. Historically, the Nilotic Lwo ethnic groups of South Sudan, that is, Dinka and Nuer, have fought each other but utilised their customs in conflict resolution. The use of societal customs has prevailed at the grass-roots level in the face of intermittent interethnic conflicts, which feed into civil wars. This article explores the potential of societal customs in delivering sustainable peace even at a civil war level. It highlights a way of exploring further the themes (customary laws and practices) and of thinking about how/why/when these can be useful in meeting local’s interests, values, and perspectives in the civil war resolution.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2019. This is an author produced version of an article published in Journal of Peacebuilding & Development. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | South Sudan, custom, ceremonies/rituals, interethnic conflicts, civil war, sustainable peace |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2019 11:46 |
Last Modified: | 30 Mar 2020 16:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1542316619866422 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:150273 |