ALC Research Seminars: No. 11 Leadership, Nation-building and War in South Sudan; The Problems of Statehood and Collective Will

The African Leadership Centre (ALC) is pleased to announce our next(online) research seminar on Tuesday 22, November 2022 at 09:30 - 11:00PM GMT/ 12:30-14:00PM EAT

The session will host a seminar presentation on a book titled ‘Leadership,Nation-building and War in South Sudan; The Problems of Statehood and Collective Will’ authored by Dr. Sonja Theron

About the book:

The book challenges the notion that the continued violence of South Sudan's nation-building process can be reduced to either identity difference or the fault of individual leaders. Rather, it uses the leadership process to understand the complex progressions and relationships that have characterized South Sudan's nation-building trajectory. The book argues that the core driving force behind the current conflict in South Sudan can be found not in ethnicity, the “resource curse” or power struggle, but in a set of destructive relationships that have fueled violence and oppression in the country for the better part of a century. This cyclical leadership process has entrapped the country in an increasingly destructive and contradictory nation-building process that continues to spiral and disintegrate

Speaker:

Dr. Sonja Theron, Lecturer Department of Political Sciences, Programme Director: Research, Centre for Mediation in Africa Faculty of Humanities, Alumna, and Senior Associate Fellow, African Leadership Centre

Discussant:

Dr. Remember Miamingi, South Sudanese human rights and governance expert presently based at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa

Chair:

Shuvai Nyoni, Executive Director ALC, Nairobi

You can pre-register your interest to attend here

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27 November 2024

  The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (http://email.alcafricanos.com/c/eJwkzTFuxCAQQNHTQGnBAIspKCJF3GM8BnskbG-A3Si3j6ztfvP11ljKDNbKHLU34MA4FeQevbMLFuOhlICeSGcXYKYlqKCLNlZyBAVWa3BqNtqGaV20whUCKef1A4uwCithaUx4Xn2i65A17mM8uzBfApKAhJWuUpjy1P_6yEcXkIjfTO0QkA7kyucmIL1avQeTXsJ86xAEPH54vdtbAC9b7HnBPhjP6Tf369zw5j92zbjm1nd-Uj5Hy9PVNvmO8B8AAP__hCpNNQ) (HD) would like to invite you to our upcoming ALC Research seminar series event, “Conflict and Instability in Sudan and the Wider Horn of Africa: What Options for Peace-making? ” It will be held on Thursday, 28 November 2024, from 18:30 UK Time. Abstract: In this seminar, experienced policy actors and peace practitioners will share their insights about prospects for peace, leadership processes, and the domestic and international factors that influence the longstanding crisis of war in Sudan. The prolongation and stalemate characterising the war in Sudan calls for renewed conversations about what is possible and the way forward, making it important to bring practitioners into academic spaces. Policymakers and practitioners who have been involved in the day-to-day peacebuilding process in Sudan share their insights, peacebuilding efforts and perspectives of the war. The war in Sudan cannot be understood in isolation due to the wider insecurities in the Horn of Africa – Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and South Sudan. In the case of Ethiopia, despite the signing of a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front in 2022, Ethiopia continues to experience armed insurgencies and instability from conflicts in the Oromia, Amhara and the Beni...

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