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Leadership, Nation-building and War in South Sudan : The Problems of Statehood and Collective Will, Paperback / softback Book

Leadership, Nation-building and War in South Sudan : The Problems of Statehood and Collective Will Paperback / softback

Part of the Peace, Society, and the State in Africa series

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For over fifty years, the people of South Sudan fought for the right to be citizens of an independent nation-state.

When this goal was finally achieved, however, it quickly became evident that the South Sudanese nation was not nearly as cohesive as hoped.

The result has been a catastrophic civil war. 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.

Rather, it uses the leadership process to understand the complex progressions and relationships that have characterised 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.

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