The State of Post-Conflict Reconstruction - Land, Urban Development and State-Building in Juba, Southern Sudan

Traces the dynamics of state-building in Juba, Southern Sudan 2005-2011, revealing how underlying ties of ethnicity and land dominated the actions of the various parties in post-conflict reconstruction and how these may continue to influence power and resource-sharing in the newly independent state of South Sudan.

List of contents

Introduction: The dilemma of 'post-conflict recontstruction' in South Sudan
The momemtum of history
'Rebels' and 'collaborators': integration and reconciliation following the CPA
'Land belongs to the community': competing interpretations of the CPA
The unseeing state: corruption, evasion and other responses to urban planning
Local land disputes: informality, autochthony and competing ideas of citizenship
Conclusion: all statebuilding is local

About the author

Naseem Badiey

Product details

• Authors: Naseem Badiey, Naseem (Customer) Badiey
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2014
• EAN: 9781847010940
• ISBN: 978-1-84701-094-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Series: Eastern Africa Series; Eastern Africa; Eastern Africa Series; Eastern Africa
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; Afrikanische Geschichte, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, HISTORY / Africa / General, History - General History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society