Leadership, Nation-building and War in South Sudan Theron Sonja African Leadership Centre Kings College London UK
Leadership, Nation-building and War in South Sudan Theron Sonja African Leadership Centre Kings College London UK For over fifty years, the people of South Sudan fought for the right to be citizens…
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Leadership, Nation-building and War in South Sudan Theron Sonja African Leadership Centre Kings College London UK
For over fifty years, the people of South Sudan fought for the right to be citizens of an independent nation-state. The result has been a catastrophic civil war. When this goal was finally achieved, however, it quickly became evident that the South Sudanese nation was not nearly as cohesive as hoped.
Rather, it uses the leadership process to understand the complex progressions and relationships that have characterised South Sudan's nation-building trajectory. Spanning South Sudan's nation-building struggle from its inception up until the current civil war, this book challenges the notion that the continued violence of this process can be reduced to either identity difference or the fault of individual leaders. 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