#2 2012 A window of opportunity for Sudan?

In spring 2012 the Life & Peace Institute and the Nordic Africa Institute arranged a seminar series titled Sudan: North in the shadow of the South. The idea behind the seminars was to emphasise the importance of a continued engagement within peacebuilding in Sudan as well as in South Sudan. The seminars aimed not only at pointing out challenges but also opportunities to transform conflict and build sustainable peace.

In this context the idea was born to let New Routes no. 2.2012 focus on Sudan and its interrelation with South Sudan. This was a brilliant opportunity to draw on the knowledge and experience of some of the seminar speakers, and we are happy to have five of them among the authors in this issue.

The seminars presented a variety of topics, as does this New Routes publication: border issues, natural resources, the potential of civil society based initiatives, the relations between farmers and pastoralists, environment and climate change and its connection to conflict.

– A common theme stressed by several of the speakers is that sustainable peace is not achievable if the two countries are viewed separately. The Sudanese themselves and the international community have to explore new ways of peacebuilding in Sudan, said Peter Karlsson Sjögren, Executive Director of the LPI, in connection with the seminar series.

The same view is valid for this issue of New Routes, which hopefully will give inspiration and food for thought to its readers.

Kristina Lundqvist

War or peace in Sudan:
Learning lessons from an exercise in partition
Michael Sahlin

Broad participation needed in the constitution-making process
Al-Tayib Zain al-Abdin

What peace and whose? Building a more comprehensive peace in the two sudans
Richard Barltrop

A nexus with great potential:
Civil society organisations, peacebuilding, democracy
Yasir Awad A. Eltahir

Civil society important actor in peacebuilding and conflict mitigation
Buthaina Ahmed Elnaiem

Blue Nile:
National and indigenous conflict management– competing or complementary systems?
Mey Eltayeb Ahmed

Abyei – the Kashmir of Sudan
Johan Brosché

Sudan – south sudan border area:
Oil production versus pastoral livelihoods
Mohamed Ahmed Abdelghaffar

Climate change and recurring conflicts an interplay between nature and humans
Guma Kunda Komey

More complex conflict drivers than environment and climate
Gunnar M. Sørbø

Publicerad: 2013-05-07

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