Chapter 2 Peace and Puzzlement: Grass-roots Peace Initiatives between the Nuer and Dinka of South Sudan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps, Plates, Figures and Tables vii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Raiding, War and Peace, Sudan and Northern Uganda
7. Chapter 1 The Nuer Civil Wars 31
8. Chapter 2 Peace and Puzzlement: Grass-roots Peace Initiatives between the Nuer and Dinka of South Sudan 49
9. Chapter 3 The Experience of Violence and Pastoralist Identity in Southern Karamoja 73
10. Part II Politics of Kinship and Marriage, Sudan and Northern Kenya
11. Chapter 4 Endogamy and Alliance in Northern Sudan 103
12. Chapter 5 Descent and Descent Ideologies: The Blue Nile Area (Sudan) and Northern Kenya Compared 117
13. Part III Encounters with Modernity, Sudan and Sudan–Ethiopia Borderlands
14. Chapter 6 The Rise and Decline of Lorry Driving in the Fallata Migrant Community of Maiurno on the Blue Nile 139
15. Chapter 7 Mbororo (Fulɓe) Migrations from Sudan into Ethiopia 157
16. Part IV Displacement, Refuge and Identification
17. Chapter 8 Conflict and Identity Politics: The Case of Anywaa–Nuer Relations in Gambela, Western Ethiopia 181
18. Chapter 9 The Cultural Resilience in Nuer Conversion and a ‘Capitalist Missionary’ 205
19. Chapter 10 Changing Identifications among the Pari Refugees in Kakuma 219
20. Chapter 11 Crossing Points: Journeys of Transformation on the Sudan–Ethiopian Border 235
21. Bibliography 251
22. Notes on Contributors 263
23. Index 265