This month, RESOLVE highlights recommended readings from our latest Policy Note, "Towards Local Approaches and Inclusive Peacebuilding in South Sudan.” Author Emmaculate Asige Liaga introduces the “local” in peacebuilding within the context of South Sudan and its benefits. The policy note provides recommendations s on how policymakers can leverage the “local” and local peacebuilding approaches to improve outcomes and build sustainable peace through increased levels of legitimacy, accountability, and participation. This What We’re Reading digest was recommended by the author to give more background on peacebuilding in Africa, local perspectives and inclusivity in peacebuilding, post-liberal peacebuilding in South Sudan, local strategies to peacebuilding in South Sudan, national dialogue in South Sudan, and youth and women on South Sudan and peacebuilding.

 

On Peacebuilding in Africa

Harris, David. “The state of peacebuilding in Africa: lessons learned for policymakers and practitioners.” International Affairs 97, no. 4 (2021): 1272-1274. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab107.

Ofuho, Cirino Hiteng. “Community conflict resolution and reconciliation in the Kidepo, Valley of Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan: Some lessons from grassroot practices of peacemaking.” In All-Africa Conference on African Principles of Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, 1999.

On Local Perspectives and Inclusivity in Peacebuilding

Does, Antonia. “Inclusivity and local perspectives in peacebuilding: issues, lessons, challenges.” Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, 2013. https://gsdrc.org/document-library/inclusivity-and-local-perspectives-i….

Leonardsson, Hanna, and Gustav Rudd. “The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding: a literature review of effective and emancipatory local peacebuilding.” Third World Quarterly 36, no. 5 (2015): 825-839. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1029905.

Gruener, Sigrid, Henrik Person, and Sarah Smith. “Inclusivity in Peacebuilding.” Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 2014. http://www.daghammarskjold.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dd-paper_no6-w….

Verkoren, Willemijn, and Mathijs Van Leeuwen. “Civil society in peacebuilding: Global discourse, local reality.” International Peacekeeping 20, no. 2 (2013): 159-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2013.791560.

Akol, Z. D. “Inclusivity: A challenge to the IGAD-led South Sudanese peace process.” The Sudd Institute, December 7, 2014. https://www.suddinstitute.org/publications/show/inclusivity-a-challenge….

Murithi, Timothy. “Practical peacemaking wisdom from Africa: Reflections on Ubuntu.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 1, no. 4 (2006): 25-34.

On post-liberal peacebuilding in South Sudan

African Research and Resource Forum. “Re-Thinking Inclusive Governance in South Sudan.” 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10625/55328.

Omeje, Kenneth, ed. Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa: In Search of Alternative Strategies. Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351031462.

Da Costa, Diana Felix. “Contextualising liberal peacebuilding for local circumstances: UNMISS and local peacebuilding in South Sudan.” Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 7, no. 2 (2012): 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/15423166.2012.743814.

On Local Strategies to Peacebuilding in South Sudan

Karlsrud, John, and Diana Felix Da Costa. “Moving towards local level peacebuilding? Contextualizing early peacebuilding activities to local circumstances: South Sudan case-study field report.” Security in Practice 5 (2012). https://nupi.brage.unit.no/nupi-xmlui/handle/11250/276452?locale-attrib….

Liaga, Emmaculate Asige, and Cori Wielenga. “Social Cohesion From the Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Cases of South Sudan an Burundi.” Peace & Change 45, no. 3 (2020): 389-425. https://doi.org/10.1111/pech.12424.

Ashworth, John. “The Attempts of Dialogue in Sudan.” In Dialogue and Conflict Resolution, edited by Pernille Rieker and Henrik Thunepp, 179-200. Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576961-12.

On Local Strategies to Peacebuilding in South Sudan

Machar, Benjamin. Building a culture of peace through dialogue in South Sudan. Sudd Institute, 2015.

Bahemuka, Augustine. “Non-Violent Religious Militancy: Revisiting the Church-led People-to-People Peacemaking Approach in Southern Sudan.” Hekima Institute of Peace Studies & International Relations, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20232.14084.

Agwanda, Titus, and Geoff Harris. “People-to-people peacemaking and peacebuilding: A review of the work of the New Sudan Council of Churches.” African Security Studies 18, no. 2 (2009): 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2009.9627527.

On National Dialogue in South Sudan

Mayai, Augustino T. “The National Dialogue Final Resolutions: What the Presidency should Do.” Africa Portal, January 19, 2021. https://www.africaportal.org/publications/national-dialogue-final-resol….

Vhumbunu, Clayton Hazvinei. “The National Dialogue Initiative in South Sudan.” Conflict Trends 2018, no. 1 (2018). https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-ecff04924.

Deng, Francis. “National Dialogue: A Critical Perspective.” The Sudd Institute, 2017. https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/595d3c425be3b….

On Youth and Women of South Sudan and Peacebuilding

Chilvers, Richard. “Preventing Cattle Raiding Violence in South Sudan: Local level peace building focusing on young people.” Oxfam, August 2016. https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/preventing-cattle-raiding-v….

Godia, Jane. “Sudanese women balancing the delicate political act.” South Sudan Women’s Agenda, August 2009. http://www.awcfs.org/dmdocuments/gem_sudan/SudanWomenAgenda.pdf.

Manchanda, Rita. “Women’s agency in peace building: Gender relations in post-conflict reconstruction.” Economic and Political Weekly 40, no. 44-45 (2005): 4737-4745. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4417360.

Isike, Christopher, and Ufo Okeke Uzodike. “Towards an indigenous model of conflict resolution: Reinventing women’s roles as traditional peacebuilders in neo-colonial Africa.” African Journal on Conflict Resolution 11, no. 2 (2011): 32-58. https://doi.org/10.4314/ajcr.v11i2.69832.

Ajak, Peter Biar. “Youth-led national dialogue the only option to avert disaster in South Sudan.” Brookings Institution, October 12, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/10/12/youth-led-nat….

Mayen, Apuk Ayuel. Women in peace making processes in South Sudan. Sudd Institute., 2013. https://www.suddinstitute.org/publications/show/women-in-peace-making-p…. [Accessed May 18, 2018.