Internally Displaced and Voluntary Return in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of Northern and Southern Sudan

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Issam A.W. Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
Internally Displaced

The Interlinkage between Understandings of Self-Determination and Understandings of Peace

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-42
Author(s):  
Nasredeen Abdulbari
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Positive Peace

There are two (not mutually exclusive) understandings of self-determination: a ‘thin’ one and a ‘thick’ one. The thin understanding focuses on secession; the thick understanding focuses on participation within the same state. In the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) used both conceptions of self-determination. This chapter argues that the two understandings of self-determination correspond to two different understandings of peace and that in Sudan’s particular experience only self-determination in its thin sense, which corresponds to negative peace and not positive peace, was implemented in resolving the southern Sudan-northern Sudan conflict, explaining much of what followed. The chapter analyses the CPA and its implementation, as well as the two main constitutions that reflected its provisions, with the objective of examining the different understandings of self-determination that they incorporated, the conceptions of peace that correspond to them and how they were interlinked, and how this determined the degree of success in realizing peace through self-determination.

scholarly journals China's Sudan Engagement: Changing Northern and Southern Political Trajectories in Peace and War

2009 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 610-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Large
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Central State ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Investment Protection ◽  
The North ◽  
Internal Instability ◽  
Peace And War

AbstractChina has developed a more consequential role in Sudan over the past two decades, during which it has become bound up in the combination of enduring violent internal instability and protracted external adversity that has characterized the politics of the central state since the 1989 Islamist revolution. Two inter-related political trajectories of China's Sudan engagement are examined here. The first concerns Beijing's relations with the ruling National Congress party in incorporating China into its domestic politics and foreign relations amidst war in Darfur, to which Beijing has responded through a more engaged political role. The second confronts the practical limitations of China's sovereignty doctrine and exclusive reliance upon relations with the central state. Following the peace agreement of 2005 that ended the North–South war, and motivated by political imperatives linked to investment protection concerns, China has developed new relations with the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan, thus seeking to position itself to navigate Sudan's uncertain political future.

Trends in the application of international humanitarian law by United Nations human rights mechanisms

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (324) ◽  
pp. 481-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Law

UN human rights mechanisms continue to proliferate, producing numerous decisions and voluminous reports. This article reviews the ways in which such mechanisms apply international humanitarian law, including the law of Geneva and the law of The Hague. In doing so, it focuses mainly on the practice of the rapporteurs appointed by the UN Commission on Human Rights to investigate the human rights situations in specific countries and on that of the thematic rapporteurs and working groups which the Commission has entrusted with monitoring specific types of serious human rights violations wherever they occur, in particular the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions and the Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons, whose mandates most often lead them to examine abuses occurring in the context of armed conflicts. Reference is also made to two innovative mechanisms which functioned in El Salvador: the first UN-sponsored “truth commission” and the first human rights monitoring body established as part of a comprehensive mechanism for monitoring compliance with a UN-sponsored peace agreement. Certain observations made by treaty monitoring bodies are also mentioned.

Colombia's Internally Displaced Persons: The Trauma Signature

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelde Espinel ◽  
James Shultz ◽  
Anna Ordonez ◽  
Yuval Neria
Keyword(s):  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Internally Displaced
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