Spiritual Contestations - the Violence of Peace in South Sudan.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (323 pages)
- Religion in Transforming Africa Series ; v.12 .
- Religion in Transforming Africa Series .
Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I Histories and Archives of Peace and Impunity -- Introduction -- 1 Priestly peace and the Divinity of the Gun -- 2 Peace-making during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium -- Part II Negotiating Peace -- 3 Regulating the Proliferation of Divine Power: Wars 1980s-2000s -- 4 'Local peace' and the Silencing of the Dead: The 1999 Wunlit Peace Meeting -- 5 The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement -- 6 The Proliferation of Conflict in Gogrial, post-2005 -- 7 The Proliferation of Peace in Gogrial, 2005-2020 -- 8 The Baany e Biith and the Logics of Peace-making in Gogrial, 2005-2020 -- 9 Cosmological Crisis and Continuing Conflict in Unity State, 2005-2013 -- 10 Prophetic Proliferations: Making Peace in Unity State, 2005-2013 -- Part III The Logics of Peace and the Shape of War -- 11 A War for the Dead and Wars Made by Peace -- 12 Prophets Making Peace: Peace-making in Unity State, post-2013 -- 13 Peace and Unending Wars in Warrap State post-2013 -- 14 The Problems of Forgiveness, 2013-2020 -- Conclusion: The Cosmic Politics of Peace in South Sudan -- Bibliography -- Index -- Previously published titles in the series.
A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control.