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Deals and dealings: inconclusive peace and treacherous trade along the South Sudan-Uganda border

Schomerus, Mareike and Titeca, Kristof (2012) Deals and dealings: inconclusive peace and treacherous trade along the South Sudan-Uganda border. Africa Spectrum, 47 (2-3). pp. 5-31. ISSN 0002-0397

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Abstract

Since Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed, its border with Uganda has become a hub of activity. Contrasting developments on the Ugandan side of the border with those on the South Sudanese side, the paper draws on empirical fieldwork to argue that the CPA has created new centres of power in the margins of both states. However, in day-today dealings on either side of the border, South Sudanese military actors have become dominant. In the particular case of Arua and the South Sudan- Uganda border, past wartime authority structures determine access to opportunities in a tightly regulated, inconclusive peace. This means that smallscale Ugandan traders - although vital to South Sudan - have become more vulnerable to South Sudan's assertions of state authority. The experience of Ugandan traders calls into question the broad consensus that trade across the border is always beneficial for peace-building. The paper concludes that trade is not unconditionally helpful to the establishment of a peaceful environment for everyone.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/index
Additional Information: © 2012 Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Divisions: International Development
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited: 18 Dec 2012 15:35
Last Modified: 12 Dec 2024 00:13
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/47732

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