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 Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني (Re: Raja)
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(Southern Sudan: Prospects and Challenges)
is an attempt to justify analytically the long-standing Southern demand for self-determination to the Arab world readers. The theme of the book is based on the principle of the right of Southern Sudanese to establish an independent state in Southern Sudan's Upper Nile, Bahr el-Ghazal and Equatoria regions (provinces) as they stood in January 1956. The book is addressed to the Arab World readers, particularly to the educated class and politicians. It is also addressed to the third and the fourth generations of the South who read and write Arabic. It attempts to approach the Southern Sudanese problem using different approach: using history as a starting point and not an aim by itself as the first and the second generations of Southern politicians used to address and propagate the problem. In this book the right to self-determination is based upon articles addressing it in the Asmara Agreement between the SPLM and the NDA in June 1995 and the Khartoum Peace Agreement between the GOS and the UDSF in April 1997.
The book focuses on the premises that now that the North conceded to the right of Southerners to freely exercise their right to Self-determination on whether to secede or remain in a united Sudan, the next move would be to explore the prospects of the future of this emerging independent South Sudan entity. The book is about the future of the South. A thorough analysis of future relations between the South and the North, in various aspects after the secession of the South, is the focus of one of the chapters. Different contentious political, economic and social issues that might cause problems later on between the two states are explored and solutions are suggested. A major portion of the book is composed of several tens of questions, most of which are aimed at provoking critical thinking about the future of the state-to-be in the South.
The book also raises controversial questions such: Who are Southerners and what are the elements that forms their socio-political identity? How do they express their identity? What are the common grounds that would make them a nation, and does the enmity they share towards the North forms the only common bond or interest among them? And what will become of their relations among themselves when the enemy is gone? In addition to several similar provocative, but important questions.
Then a chapter on the challenges ahead of this state-to-be: Are Southerners ready for an independent state? Does the current behavior of their military and political leadership support the idea that Southerners are ready to welcome that state? Why is the Southern leadership pursuing a war which has already claimed a high human lost, at the time that all the indications seem suggest that the leadership is not ready in practical terms for the establishment of an independent state? Does the South have the technical and trained-manpower to run the emerging state? What are the economic and political potentials of this state-to-be? What will be the type of political system that will be adopted in that state? What are the solutions to the problem of nepotism., political tribalism and the practical means to fight the acute corruption of the military and political leadership in a free South?
The book also devotes a whole chapter on the challenges that are awaiting the state in North Sudan after the South secedes. At the heart of the analysis is the eminent conflict between the conservative religious parties and the emerging liberal and secular 'marginalized' elite from the western and eastern parts of Sudan. The issue of unequal economic development between the central parts of the North and the other regions and the problem of the water shortages in these regions are some of the problems to face the Central Government in the Northern part of the country after the South secedes. What will be the effects of rivalry between Egypt and Libya about political influence over Northern Sudan on an independent South? This is in addition to several other contentious issues raised in the book, all of which suggest that the North is in for a bitter political turmoil in future, unless the old ways of intentional marginalization of the peripheries and the policy of centralization of the national wealth and development in central parts of the North are abandoned as soon as the South go its way.
The book also tries to explore the possibility of establishing a clear foreign policy of the state-to-be. The envisaged external policy should be based on the historical knowledge of ties and mutual interests of the following states and the South during and after the national struggle: Egypt, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zaire (DRC), Kenya, Libya, USA, France, Great Britain, in addition to China, Japan, India, Nigeria and South Africa. There is also a chapter dealing with the negative, and sometimes destructive role of some western, Christian and humanitarian NGOs that are currently operating in the South. There is a plan to translate the book into English in the near future.
The book was published in Amman, Jordan in February 2000 (267 pages), and you can purchase it through your local bookstore from the following addresses:
Al-Ahalia Lil Nashr wal Tawzia
P O Box 7772
Amman Jordan
Tel: 00962 6 4638688
Fax 4657445
Or
Bissan Bookshop
Beirut
Lebanon
Tel: 00961 1 747088
London, Britian
Al-Saqi Bookshop
Dar Al Hikma
Paris, France
Ibn Sina Bookshop
Cairo, Egypt
Dar Al Jil
Madbuli Bookshop
Damascus, Syria
Al Nuri Bookshop
Dar Al Madaa
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| في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | Deng | 09-19-07, 03:00 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | Idris Tabidi | 09-19-07, 03:39 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | حيدر حسن ميرغني | 09-19-07, 03:45 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | Deng | 09-19-07, 03:50 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | Raja | 09-19-07, 04:10 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | حيدر حسن ميرغني | 09-19-07, 04:24 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | ALazhary2 | 09-19-07, 04:31 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | Deng | 09-19-07, 07:01 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | Nasr | 09-19-07, 07:23 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | adil amin | 09-19-07, 08:24 PM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | Deng | 09-20-07, 00:16 AM |
| Re: في ندوة بالقاهرة: المؤشرات ترجح انفصال الجنوب السوداني | waleed500 | 09-20-07, 00:56 AM |
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حيدر حسن ميرغني
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست