A Small State's Multiple-level Approach to Peace-making: Norway's Role in Achieving Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement
2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 8; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13698240601060686
ISSN1743-968X
Autores Tópico(s)Political Conflict and Governance
ResumoTracing Norway's role in Sudan's parallel peace processes – the official negotiations between the parties and the grassroots People-to-People peace conferences – provides compelling evidence that small states can make a major contribution to peace-making in deeply divided states with protracted violent conflicts. Working behind the scenes with official and unofficial actors in Sudan's multiple-layered war, Norwegians in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the NGO community co-operated in their efforts supporting more prominent mediators – the United States and the Kenya-led IGAD process. Sudan's years-long peace-making illustrates how a co-ordinated effort among many mediators can facilitate a peace agreement with the promise of ending decades of devastating, brutal violence.
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