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📘 The 1972 settlement unraveled in 1983

The Second Sudanese Civil War began after the political bargain that had ended the first war lost credibility. The Addis Ababa Agreement had created a Southern Region inside a united Sudan, but President Jaafar Nimeiri's government graduall

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  1. A broken autonomy bargain reopened warExplain how the collapse of the Addis Ababa settlement and the 1983 political changes restarted war.Recentralization, new laws, and military reorganization made autonomy feel unsafe again.
  2. War fractured civilian life and rebel politicsAnalyze how factionalism, abuses, hunger, and displacement shaped the war beyond the main battlefield.Multiple armed authorities turned civilian survival and rebel unity into central political problems.
  3. Oil changed the war's incentivesConnect petroleum, territory, state revenue, and displacement without treating oil as a single cause.Oil raised the value of contested land and joined national wealth to local coercion.
  4. Negotiation converted military stalemate into a bargainAssess why regional mediation and a negotiated constitutional process became possible.Stalemate and regional diplomacy shifted the conflict toward institutions and incentives.
  5. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended the war but deferred the final questionDescribe what the 2005 CPA created and why implementation remained politically difficult.The CPA ended the war, created autonomy and revenue-sharing, and deferred self-determination to a referendum.

Questions this course answers

What most directly reopened the north-south war in 1983?

Recentralization, division of the south, new laws, and military reorganization undermined the earlier settlement.

Why is it misleading to describe the war as only a government-versus-SPLA conflict?

Internal rebel splits and government-aligned forces changed who controlled territory and threatened civilians.

How did oil affect the conflict?

Oil raised the stakes of controlling land, infrastructure, and revenue-producing regions.

What did IGAD-backed diplomacy change?

The process addressed self-determination, security, religion, territory, and wealth sharing.

What was the central political trade in the 2005 CPA?

The CPA preserved unity during an interim period while creating autonomy and a referendum path.

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