We can't fully address the young country's failures with more peacekeepers or a power-sharing deal. Here's why Washington should launch a joint venture with Juba. G. Pascal Zachary
The Atlantic - Jan 3 2014
Ahead of peace talks to resolve horrific violence in South Sudan,
which has claimed more than 1,000 lives in under three weeks, Gadet
Koang Deng proposed an unconventional solution to the young country’s
chronic instability. “We should be under United Nations supervision for
at least 10 years to teach our police to be proportionate, our army to
behave,” Deng, one of 200,000 South Sudanese displaced by the fighting,
told a New York Times reporter.
It’s a recommendation international mediators calling for “national reconciliation” would do well to heed. As negotiations get underway in Ethiopia,
we find ourselves at a pivotal moment for Sub-Saharan Africa. The
painstaking formation of South Sudan in 2011 ended one of the longest
civil wars in history, which raged for decades within Khartoum-led
greater Sudan. The Bush and Obama administrations, which played a leading role
in that effort, long feared that tensions over oil resources would
drive Sudan to strangle the infant state to its south. Now, instead,
strife within South Sudan threatens to wipe out the diplomatic and
political achievement of creating the new nation in the first place.
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