Jok Madut Jok is Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He has published numerous books and articles including War and Slavery in Sudan.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction: The "New Sudan": How Sudan's Break-Up Prepared the Ground for More War

Sudan after the CPA

South Sudan after the CPA
1 The Two Sudans and the Defeat of the CPA Reform Project

South Sudan and the burden of independence

Post-separation relations

The cooperation agreements

The cooperation agreements and continued military raids
2 Independent South Sudan and the Burden of Liberation History

The burden of the liberation wars

Political violence and the development of a sub-culture of guns

The CPA and the unrelenting violence

The CPA and the exclusionary peace

South Sudan and the legacy of liberation ideologies
3 Sudan's Wars: The Experience of One Village
4 Political Rivalries, the New Wars and the Crumbling Social Order

The 2013 outbreak of conflict: what caused this crisis?

How political disagreement turned violent

Power politics or tribal wars?
5 Reporting Sudan's Wars: The Media and the Blurred Line Between Informing and Inciting

War and sexual violence

Displacement and social life
6 Mixed Economies, Corruption and Social Disparity

The decentralized system of government and its shortfalls

Mixed economies, social disparities, conflict and the role of corruption

Governance and the role of policy research
7 Ethnic Relations, the New War and the (Dis)Unity of South Sudan

Obstacles to collective belonging

Public goods and services as the success of the state

History as the foundation of nationhood

The new civil war and prospects for a united South Sudan

Cultural exclusion could keep South Sudan in perpetual conflict
8 Conclusion: The Fates of the Two Sudans

Landing on hard ground

Ambivalent new neighbors

A history of violent interactions or a future of links?

Invisible connections and the promise of peaceful co-existence



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After decades of civil war, the people of southern Sudan voted to secede from the north in an attempt to escape the seemingly endless violence. On declaring independence, South Sudan was one of the least developed places on earth, but with the ability to draw upon significant oil reserves worth $150 million a month, the foundation for a successful future was firmly in place. How, then, did the state of the new nation deteriorate even further, to the point that a new civil war broke out two years later?

Today, with both Sudans still hostage to the aspirations of their military and political leaders, how can their people escape the violence that has dominated the two countries' recent history? By giving voice to those who, after the break-up of Sudan, have had to find ways to live, trade and communicate with one another, Jok Madut Jok provides a moving insight into a crisis that has only rarely made it into our headlines. Breaking Sudan is a meticulous account, analyzing why violence became so deeply entrenched in Sudanese society and exploring what can be done to find peace in two countries ravaged by war.