CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Eno-Akpa, Nkongho Rene |
|---|---|
| Title | THE FRAGILITY OF THE LIBERAL PEACE EXPORT: AN ADVOCACY FOR THE EXTENSION OF FORMAL EDUCATION ACCESS IN THE LIBERAL PEACE PROJECT IN SOUTH SUDAN |
| Summary | This qualitative desk review of data from Afrobarometer, the National Democratic Institute, peacebuilding reports of international NGOs and reports of the Government of South Sudan, examines how the policy transposition of the liberal peace model in South Sudan is divorced from the country’s local context. The research further examines how deep rooted historical exclusion from social welfare reinforces political exclusion or poor civic engagements among different ethnicities. The study finds that restricted access to formal education constitutes a structural source of violence and explains the regular relapse to post-settlement conflicts in South Sudan. It argues that the consolidation of democratic institutions and a free market economy modeled on the conservative and orthodox approaches to peacebuilding that broadly characterize the Liberal Peace Project in South Sudan yields only graduations of authoritarian peace, institutional peace and constitutional peace that tends to degenerate into regular violence in the country. This research concludes that by uncovering a framework that prioritizes an extended access to primary and post-primary vocational education (within an emancipatory approach to peacebuilding) is justifiable and would serve to yield peace dividends and avert the structural causes of violence as well as realize durable or sustainable civil peace in post war South Sudan. |
| Supervisor | Thilo Bodenstein |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/eno-akpa_rene.pdf |
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