Spiritual Contestations The Violence Of Peace In South Sudan
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Spiritual Contestations The Violence Of Peace In South Sudan
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Author : Naomi Ruth Pendle
language : en
Publisher: James Currey
Release Date : 2023-04-18
Spiritual Contestations The Violence Of Peace In South Sudan written by Naomi Ruth Pendle and has been published by James Currey this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-18 with Political Science categories.
A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control. Peace-making can be a violent, arbitrary assertion of power. At the same time, the spheres of power, politics and religion are rarely discrete: when governments behave like gods through demonstrations of arbitrary violence, the remaking of moral and spiritual worlds can provide radical ways to contest the brutality of both conflict and peace. This book is an exploration of the way that Nuer- and Dinka-speaking communities living around the Bilnyang and connected river systems in Warrap and Unity States in South Sudan have experienced peace-making and conflict in an increasingly militarized South Sudan. The book traces patterns of violence in peace-making back to colonial and mercantile activities in the late 19th century, but focuses on the period since the 1980s. Challenging dominant understandings of conflict and peace centred on neo-liberal brokerage and settlements or a politics entirely driven by instrumentalist, neo-patrimonial, marketized logics, this book shows how South Sudanese authorities, particularly religious authorities, have contested the legitimacy of violence and peace by drawing on divinely inspired notions of authority and norms of conduct. Drawing on archive, ethnographic and oral history research, as well as participant observations of the elite peace negotiations since 2013, Pendle describes the peace-making efforts of a range of actors from international diplomats to chiefs, Nuer prophets and local priests, to show how peace-making in South Sudan became an instrument used by actors to build authority by reshaping rituals, remaking hierarchies and re-encoding moral protest against oppressive regimes. By recasting anthropological and historical scholarship on divine authorities and moral communities in South Sudan, this book brings a new perspective to conflict, peace and governance that will be invaluable not only to scholars but to policymakers, practitioners and NGOs. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC.
Nuer Prophets
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Author : Douglas H. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Social and C
Release Date : 1997
Nuer Prophets written by Douglas H. Johnson and has been published by Oxford Studies in Social and C this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Religion categories.
This is the first major study of the Nuer based on primary research since Evans-Pritchard's classic Nuer Religion. It is also the first full-length historical study of indigenous African prophets operating outside the context of the world's main religions, and as such builds on Evans-Pritchard's pioneering work in promoting collaboration and dialogue between the disciplines of anthropology and history. Prophets first emerged as significant figures among the Nuer in the nineteenth century. They fashioned the religious idiom of prophecy from a range of spiritual ideas, and enunciated the social principles which broadened and sustained a moral community across political and ethnic boundaries. Douglas Johnson argues that, contrary to the standard anthropological interpretation, the major prophets' lasting contribution was their vision of peace, not their role in war. This vision is particularly relevant today, and the book concludes with a detailed discussion of events in the Sudan since independence in 1956, describing how modern Nuer, and many other southern Sudanese, still find the message of the nineteenth-century prophets relevant to their experiences in the current civil war.
Statebuilding
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Author : Timothy Sisk
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-01-21
Statebuilding written by Timothy Sisk and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-21 with Political Science categories.
After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term? In particular, how can outsiders facilitate durable conflict-managing institutions through statebuilding - a process that historically has been the outcome of bloody struggles to establish the state's authority over warlords, traditional authorities, and lawless territories? In this book, Timothy Sisk explores international efforts to help the world’s most fragile post-civil war countries today build viable states that can provide for security and deliver the basic services essential for development. Tracing the historical roots of statebuilding to the present day, he demonstrates how the United Nations, leading powers, and well-meaning donors have engaged in statebuilding as a strategic approach to peacebuilding after war. Their efforts are informed by three key objectives: to enhance security by preventing war recurrence and fostering community and human security; to promote development through state provision of essential services such as water, sanitation, and education; to enhance human rights and democracy, reflecting the liberal international order that reaffirms the principles of democracy and human rights, . Improving governance, alongside the state's ability to integrate social differences and manage conflicts over resources, identity, and national priorities, is essential for long-term peace. Whether the global statebuilding enterprise can succeed in creating a world of peaceful, well-governed, development-focused states is unclear. But the book concludes with a road map toward a better global regime to enable peacebuilding and development-oriented statebuilding into the 21st century.
Jesus For Zanzibar Narratives Of Pentecostal Non Belonging Islam And Nation
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Author : Hans Olsson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-07-29
Jesus For Zanzibar Narratives Of Pentecostal Non Belonging Islam And Nation written by Hans Olsson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-29 with Religion categories.
In Jesus for Zanzibar Hans Olsson offers an ethnographic account of the lived experience and socio-political significance of Pentecostal Christians in Muslim Zanzibar, and religious agents’ relation to contestations over the islands place in the Tanzanian nation.
Ernest Gellner
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Author : John A. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2014-06-10
Ernest Gellner written by John A. Hall and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ernest Gellner (1925–95) was a multilingual polymath and a public intellectual who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam. Having grown up in Paris, Prague, and England, he was also one of the last great Jewish thinkers from Central Europe to experience directly the impact of the Holocaust. His intellectual trajectory differed from that of similar thinkers, both in producing a highly integrated philosophy of modernity and in combining a respect for nationalism with an appreciation of the power of modern science. Gellner was a fierce opponent, in private as well as in public, of such contemporaries as Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor, Noam Chomsky and Edward Said. As this definitive biography shows, he was passionate in the defense of reason against every form of relativism—a battle that his intellectual inheritors continue to this day.
Islamic Scholarship In Africa
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Author : Ousmane Oumar Kane
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
Islamic Scholarship In Africa written by Ousmane Oumar Kane and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the europhone/non-europhone knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research in Africa.
Labour And Christianity In The Mission
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Author : Michelle Liebst
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
Labour And Christianity In The Mission written by Michelle Liebst and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.
The Security Development Nexus
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Author : Lars Buur
language : en
Publisher: HSRC Press
Release Date : 2007
The Security Development Nexus written by Lars Buur and has been published by HSRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Africa, Southern categories.
The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development linkage has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold War, and it seems to be prospering in new configurations under the present wave of democratic transitions. Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and Democratic Congo; they explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, DDR programmes and the different trajectories democratization has taken in different parts of the region.
The Post Conflict Environment
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Author : Daniel Bertrand Monk
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2014-08-04
The Post Conflict Environment written by Daniel Bertrand Monk and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-04 with Political Science categories.
A critique of the technocratic neoliberal paradigm of peacebuilding
Cultivating Peace
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Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 1999
Cultivating Peace written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Conflict management categories.
Cultivating Peace: Conflict and collaboration in natural resource management