THE REMAINS OF THE JPA - THE UNLEARNT LESSONS OF THE JUBA PEACE AGREEMENT

THE REMAINS OF THE JPA THE UNLEARNT LESSONS OF THE JUBA PEACE AGREEMENT Joshua Craze and Kholood Khair THE REMAINS OF THE JPA THE UNLEARNT LESSONS OF THE JUBA PEACE AGREEMENT Joshua Craze and Kholood Khair THE PROJECT The Juba Peace Agreement (JPA) project, which began in 2022, is a collaboration between the Rift Valley Institute (RVI), Confluence Advisory (CA) – the research partners – and the Un. [...] The JPA became a lever that allowed the Sudanese security sector to dilute the power of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) in the transitional government, establish a bloc of commanders beholden to the military leadership, and prepare the way for the October 2021 coup, which was actively supported by two of the Darfuri signatories of the JPA, and had the tacit approval of other signatories. [...] By September 2021, the Beja High Council concluded that it was the civilian component of the government that stood in the way of resolving its grievances, and backed military calls to change the composition of the government, with the council ultimately supporting the military in the lead up to the coup.24 A key interest of the Beja High Council leadership, particularly Nazir Tirik, the chief of t. [...] The JPA signatories effectively became the counterbalance to the civilian support base of the FFC, as was manifested in the run-up to the coup, in the creation of a faux protest outside the Republican Palace.33 Similarly, it was the same JPA signatories that had, after the signing of the Framework Agreement in December 2022, helped lay the groundwork for Sudan’s current war by aiding the splinteri. [...] The federal provisions of the JPA address the peripheries, yet what has caused the marginalisation of the peripheries in Sudan is the system that connects these peripheries to the centre.49 Since Bashir took power in 1989, the Sudanese political system has been predicated on the violent extraction of resources from the periphery of the country in order to service the foreign exchange demands of th.