Tag Archive

Guest Article: Causes of Nation Disintegration in South Sudan

Published on November 24, 2009 By luounite

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ”

(Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 4, 1933)

Challenges of nation-building, and democratisation in Africa (Anyuak Media)

Published on March 28, 2009 By luounite

BY Omar Kalinge
The first challenge is in the definition. There is no agreed definition of nation-building. A 2003 study by James Dobbins and others for the RAND Corporation defines nation-building as “the use of armed force in the aftermath of a conflict to underpin an enduring transition to democracy.”