Abstract: This chapter, <italic>‘Resisting’</italic>, unravels how negotiating Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the early years of conflict in Darfur were entwined. It examines how a simplified ‘north-south’ deal sought by foreign peacemakers was resisted by the SPLM/A through surrogate violence in Darfur. The chapter argues that the logics of peacemaking may give new and different communicative power to forms of violent resistance. It shows this at close range in how the SPLM/A attached power to surrogate violence in Darfur in ways that forcefully communicated its resistance to a reductive ‘north–south’ peace, with some success. Equally, the Sudanese government’s brutal counter-insurgency in Darfur partly had the SPLM/A and the peace negotiations in mind. Through dynamics of violent resistance, the ends and means of the CPA’s eventual peace changed. However, this was at the expense of contributing to the escalation of Darfur’s war, and the violent means of resisting and remaking peace overran the ends.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-08-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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