When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans

1 Rethinking: What Are We Doing When Making Peace? -- 2 Making: Competing Designs on Peace in Sudan -- 3 Simplifying: The Means of Making a ‘North–South’ Peace -- 4 Resisting: ‘Peace’ in Sudan by Means of War in Darfur -- 5 Lying: International Duplicity and Complicity in DarfurGet access -- 6 Hollowing: Sudan’s Destitute Politics After Peace -- 7 Unfounding: The Violence in South Sudan’s Failed Political Beginning -- 8 Unending: Cycles of War, Intervention and Making and Breaking Peace -- Postscript: Sudan’s 2019 Revolution, Beginning Anew

"When Peace Kills Politics explains the role of international peacemaking in reproducing violence and political authoritarianism in Sudan and South Sudan in recent decades. Srinivasan explains how Sudan’s landmark north–south peace process that achieved the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement fueled war in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile alongside how it contributed to Sudan’s failed political transformation and newly independent South Sudan’s rapid descent into civil war. Concluding with the conspicuous absence of ‘peace’ when non-violent revolutionary political change came to Sudan in 2019, Srinivasan examines at close range why outsiders’ peace projects may displace civil politics and raise the political currency of violence. With an original contribution to theorizing peace and peacemaking drawing upon the political thought of Hannah Arendt, the book is an analysis of the tragic shortcomings of attempting to build a non-violent political realm through neat designs and tools of compulsion, where the end goal of peace becomes caught up in idealized constitutional texts, technocratic templates and deals on sharing spoils. When Peace Kills Politics demands a radical rethinking of the project of peace in civil wars, grounded in a more earnest commitment to civil political action." -- Provided by publisher.