Understanding Sudan Conflict and Its Political Economy Implications in Southern Sudan

Amon ¹ , Rimamtanung S.²

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.5 , Issue.2 , pp.9-17, Feb-2019

Online published on Feb 28, 2019

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Abstract :
Since pre-colonial and post-colonial era relations between Sudan and South Sudan has been characterized by the following; political and economic marginalization of South Sudan through under representation, discrimination and other restrictions that did not permits south Sudanese to occupy certain important constitutional posts. The aims of this paper is to interrogates how the imposition of Arabic language and culture on the people of south Sudan led to conflict, because northern Sudan are predominantly Arabs and Muslim while southern Sudan are black Africans with majority of them being Christians or animist. This article relies on content analysis that is secondary method of data analysis and qualitative descriptive techniques, this paper adopt relative Deprivation theory. This study also argue that abolition of Addis Ababa agreement of 1972 which grand southern Sudan semi- autonomous regional status, and the amalgamation of northern Sudan and south Sudan by the colonial masters in 1947 as a single entity without consulting the people of south Sudan is a mistake, because, north Sudan and south Sudan were administer differently by the Britain as a two separate countries, and couple with these ideological differences led to retardation and neglect of socio political and economic development in South Sudan and serve as a factor that cause both first and second Sudan civil war.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Understanding, Sudan, Conflicts, Political Economy, Implications, Southern Sudan

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