Waging Peace in Sudan: The Inside Story of the Negotiations That Ended Africa’s Longest Civil War

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Sudan is at a crossroads. The country could soon witness one of the most first partitions of an African state since the colonial era. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement guarantees a referendum on self determination for Southern Sudan, which is scheduled for January 2011. The agreement ended a 20-year old civil war pitting the indigenous population against successive Arab Muslim regimes in Khartoum. By the late 1990s, the international community had in large part judged the war insoluble and turned its attention elsewhere. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a peace process between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) took hold. Waging Peace in Sudan shows how that war, which in the long run claimed two million deaths and twice as many displaced, used to be in the end brought to an end. The talks were facilitated by Intergovernmental Authority on Development under Kenyan leadership, and supported by a ‘Troika’ of the United States, UK, and Norway – whose intense engagement in the negotiations used to be critical for reaching the peace agreement in January 2005. Even supposing the cast of characters in this drama ranged from President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell to unnamed officials in East African hotels, two figures stood out: the SPLM/A Chairman, Dr. John Garang, and Ali Osman Taha, First Vice President of Sudan. Norwegian Minister of International Development Hilde F. Johnson’s personal relationships with these two leaders gave her unique access and provided the basis for her pivotal role in the negotiations. She used to be party to virtually all their deliberations during this a very powerful period of Sudanese and African history. Waging Peace in Sudan describes this process from a unique, insider’s perspective. Johnson’s account provides a level of detail seldom achieved in works of up to date African history and diplomacy. As Sudan soon faces the most decisive moment in its history, this book is indispensable reading.

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