| Portion of title |
Building peace in a state of war |
| Contents |
Building Peace in a State of War -- Slave Soldiers, British Colonial Rule, and Armed Resistance -- A Divided Movement and a Framework for Peace -- The Troubled Transition -- Kleptocracy and its Warring Contents -- Impunity, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Justice -- The Revitalized Peace Process and Civil Society's Challenge -- A Transitional Government and the Prospects for Peace and National Unity. |
| Abstract |
"In the late nineteenth century, much of the southern region of what is today Sudan was considered ungovernable hinterland. Britain at this time had occupied the northern region (or Egypt), and treated the natives in southern Sudan as either savages or backward peoples. Its empire had reached new heights and stretched from Southeast Asia and the Middle East to northern parts of Africa. And there were now new "civilization standards" that defined the parameters of the 'civilized state', and that gave rise to agreements (e.g., at the 1885 Berlin Conference) which allowed it to assert administrative control over its occupied territories in Africa. Colonization had also propelled Britain's superior military technology and the need to draw on this advantage to extract raw materials for its rapidly industrializing economy. Morally, Britain saw itself as the civilizer or savior (of the backward natives), which, in helping to end much of the slave trade, was also bent on modernizing key parts of the region, i.e., improving education and roads"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022053512 |
| ISBN | 9780190057848 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
