Building peace in Africa: Reviewing the international framework to resolve Abyei's final status between Sudan and South Sudan
Abstract
The organization of our political world into states and territories of varying sizes, cultures, capacities and geological endowments easily suggests the potential for conflicts over access to scarce resources. Many conflicts arise in connection with domestic legislation or international law. Justifiable as it may seem for any government to vie with the next one for its rightful share of limited natural resources, such national claims are not always civil (let alone peaceful) especially as regards disputed territory. Of all the issues in international politics, disputes over naturally endowed territory are by far the most likely to culminate in violent warfare. Long before the Great Conference,1 scrambles for territorial domination were at the center of international wars that ravaged Europe and Africa, waged by Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, King Leopold II, Otto von Bismarck, Julius Caesar, William the Conqueror, and Islamist cleric, Usman dan Fodio.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1079202
Entities
People
- Onyekachi Obi-okoye
Organizations
- University of Kansas