The longue durée of short-lived infrastructure – Roads and state authority in South Sudan

Bachmann, Jan; Pendle, Naomi; Moro, Leben Nelson

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.001

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“…This is not only clearly acknowledged by all parties to the R-ARCISS but also by the ordinary people in South Sudan. For instance, the 2019 National Dialogue, which brought together South Sudanese from various walks of life, passed a resolution calling on the Government to establish 39 states, 13 from each of the three former regions of South Sudan (Bachmann, Ruth Pendle, & Moro, 2022). While a corollary arises as to whether the three former regions should have equal number of states, the gist of the issue is that ordinary people are clearly involved in this conversation.…”

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Embedding Federalism in the South Sudan’s Permanent Constitution: Achieving Unity in Diversity Policy

Dau

2022

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As South Sudan emerges from a brutal conflict, the 2018 Agreement mandates the Government to initiate and adopt a federal system of government through a new constitutional dispensation during the Transitional Period (2020-2024). The central issue in this paper revolves around the nature of the federal system that South Sudan should adopt to govern itself. The paper finds that while the federalism debate has historical pedigree in the political thought among the people of the Republic of South Sudan, the type of federal system to be adopted lies in the discretion of the framers. In light of this and having regard to global practice and experience of federal systems, the federal system in South Sudan should be guided by several factors such as management of ethnic conflicts, cultural compatibility, economic viability of constituent units, territoriality, and population sizes.

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Embedding Federalism in the South Sudan’s Permanent Constitution: Achieving Unity in Diversity Policy

Dau

2022

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“…This is particularly the case if returns on the GHP investment are premised on uncertain export revenue due to unpredictability of commodity demand and pricing. However, Ethiopia's low Ec8 risk rank is attributable to the technology transfer and structural transformation of its economy because it is a leading regional destination for manufacturing-oriented foreign direct investment inflows [76,77].…”

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Investigating Risks to the Implementation of the Great Equatorial Landbridge (GELB) Highway Project across Africa

Kazungu,

Sharifi

2023

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Transboundary Trade Corridors (TTC) are becoming increasingly important for achieving national, regional, and global development objectives. However, the cross-boundary nature of these projects involves dealing with diverse contexts that span across different countries and involve multiple stakeholders with varying interests. These circumstances exacerbate the risks and uncertainties that arise during their implementation, intensifying the challenges involved in making decisions about how to proceed with their execution. Insufficient evaluations of development projects have been identified as a contributing factor to unforeseen risks, which in turn can result in the underperformance and failure of transportation infrastructure projects. This ultimately acts as an impediment to achieving sustainable development goals. Further, rapid deployment of post risk-event corrective measures can exacerbate, for instance, macro-economic crisis and civil unrest. The Great Equatorial Land Bridge is a TTC planned to traverse five countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, South-Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Despite the anticipated advantages for globalization, political cooperation, and regional integration, the risks that must be addressed to successfully implement this project are still uncertain. We, therefore, use a Multicriteria Decision-Making (MCDM) framework to investigate risks to its successful implementation. The analysis results highlight that effectively managing economic, political, and geographic risks is crucial for the successful implementation of the project. Policy-makers, contractors and multiple stakeholders will benefit from this study’s depiction of the risks and their relative importance. Results can also inform actions toward sustainable development of the project.

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Infrastructural frontiers: Terrains of resistance at the material edge of the state

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Bachmann

2022

Geoforum

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The longue durée of short-lived infrastructure – Roads and state authority in South Sudan

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

Embedding Federalism in the South Sudan’s Permanent Constitution: Achieving Unity in Diversity Policy

Embedding Federalism in the South Sudan’s Permanent Constitution: Achieving Unity in Diversity Policy

Investigating Risks to the Implementation of the Great Equatorial Landbridge (GELB) Highway Project across Africa

Infrastructural frontiers: Terrains of resistance at the material edge of the state

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