Uganda has been one of the most reliable allies of the struggle for the liberation of South Sudan, owing to the personal friendship between President Museveni of Uganda and John Garang de Maboir, the former leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) dating back to the 1970s. Uganda supported the SPLM with logistics and … Read more
The republic of South Sudan gained independence in 2011,[i] after decades of armed struggle against domination of the Muslim-dominated north. Barely two years into statehood, an internal political disagreement broke out between rival politicians over the control of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party, which escalated into armed confrontation on the streets of … Read more
Sudan has been at war since it acquired her independence in 1956, owing to the British colonial policy of governance where two separate systems were used to rule the North and South.[1] While the North was the political and economic base, the south and other peripheral regions were largely ignored and only exploited for resources. … Read more
Agreements are negotiated settlements or understandings aimed at resolving conflict, or at the very least, fundamentally transforming a conflict so as to enable it to be addressed constructively (Hartzell, 1999, p. 4). Different forms of agreements can be negotiated and reached in the process of conflict settlement, with each serving a different purpose in developing … Read more
The history of political thought dates back to antiquity while the political history of the world and thus the history of political thinking by man stretches up through the medieval period and the Renaissance. In the Age of Enlightenment, political entities expanded from basic systems of self-governance and monarchy to the complex democratic and communist systems that exist of … Read more
Federalism in General Federalism can conventionally be regarded as a decentralized way of managing policy (Elazar, 1985, p. 15). It can be described as a union of various distinct states where political and economic power is shared between the central government and lower regional or state authorities. The common aspect of federalism is shared power … Read more
Human displacement refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region. It often connotes violent coercion, and is used interchangeably with the term forced migration. In the strictest sense human displacement can be considered to be involuntary only when a person is physically transported from a country … Read more
a) Discuss what he means by military professionalism in a pure democratic state sighting clear and applicable examples in international relations. In his 1957 book on civil-military relations, The Soldier and the State, Samuel P. Huntington described the differences between the two worlds as a contrast between the attitudes and values held by military personnel, … Read more