n Conflict Trends - Conflict resurgence and the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan : a hurried and imposed peace pact?

Abstract

The hope for peace and stability in South Sudan was restored when a peace pact - the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (ARCSS) - was signed between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Army in Government (SPLM/A-IG) and SPLM/A in Opposition (SPLM/A-IO), as represented by President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon respectively. The agreement, which was signed on 17 August 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and on 26 August 2015 in Juba, South Sudan, was ratified by the South Sudan National Legislative Assembly on 10 September 2015. The agreement sought to end the deadly civil war that had broken out in South Sudan in December 2013, following power struggles between Kiir and Machar and the allegations of an attempted coup made by the former against the latter.