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Breaking Sudan: The Search for Peace

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Description for Breaking Sudan: The Search for Peace Hardback. An intense study of the Sudans' torturous history, analysing why so many attempts to find peace have failed and setting out how this can change Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBS; GTJ; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 37. Weight in Grams: 636.

After decades of civil war, the people of southern Sudan voted to secede from the north in an attempt to escape the seemingly endless violence. On declaring independence, South Sudan was one of the least developed places on earth, but with the ability to draw upon significant oil reserves worth $150 million a month, the foundation for a successful future was firmly in place. How, then, did the state of the new nation deteriorate even further, to the point that a new civil war broke out two years later?

Today, with both Sudans still hostage to the aspirations of ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786070036
SKU
V9781786070036
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Ref
99-50

About Jok Madut Jok
Jok Madut Jok is a professor of history at Loyola Marymount University, California, and a professor of anthropology at the University of Juba, South Sudan. He is also the founding director of the Sudd Institute, a public policy research centre. His previous books include Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence, also published by Oneworld, and The Sudan Handbook.

Reviews for Breaking Sudan: The Search for Peace
‘This book is valuable as an articulation of important ideas and perspectives that are part of the South Sudanese debate. The book is also important as it places the reader in the middle of these complicated, unfolding and sometimes contradictory debates.’
Sudan Studies
‘In Breaking Sudan,Jok Maduk Jok attempts to explain why the end of the prolonged north–south ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Breaking Sudan: The Search for Peace


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