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SUMMARY:Book Launch: ‘When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervent
 ion and Unending Wars in the Sudans’\, by Sharath Srinivasan. - Sharath 
 Srinivasan
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 otJmrb26LItcrK03I/edit \n\n_*When Peace Kills Politics*_ explains the role
  of international peacemaking in reproducing violence and political author
 itarianism in Sudan and South Sudan in recent decades. Sharath Srinivasan 
 explains how Sudan’s landmark north–south peace process that achieved 
 the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement fuelled war in Darfur\, the Nuba Mo
 untains and the Blue Nile\, alongside how it contributed to Sudan’s fail
 ed political transformation and newly independent South Sudan’s rapid de
 scent into civil war. Concluding with the conspicuous absence of ‘peace
 ’ when non-violent revolutionary political change came to Sudan in 2019\
 , Srinivasan examines at close range why outsiders’ peace projects may d
 isplace civil politics and raise the political currency of violence. With 
 an original contribution to theorizing peace and peacemaking drawing upon 
 the political thought of Hannah Arendt\, the book is an analysis of the tr
 agic shortcomings of attempting to build a non-violent political realm thr
 ough neat designs and tools of compulsion\, where the end goal of peace be
 comes caught up in idealized constitutional texts\, technocratic templates
  and deals on sharing spoils. When Peace Kills Politics demands a radical 
 rethinking of the project of peace in civil wars\, grounded in a more earn
 est commitment to civil political action.\n\n*Dr. Sharath Srinivasan* is C
 o-Director of the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Governance and Hum
 an Rights\, David and Elaine Potter Associate Professor in the Department 
 of Politics and International Studies\, and Fellow of King’s College\, C
 ambridge. Alongside _When Peace Kills Politics_\, which came out with Hurs
 t Publishers and Oxford University Press in 2021\, he is also co-editor (w
 ith Sarah Nouwen and Laura James) of the volume\, _Making and Breaking Pea
 ce in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond_
  (Proceedings of the British Academy/OUP\, 2020)\, and co-editor of _Publi
 cs in Africa in a Digital Age_ (Routledge\, 2021).  \n\n
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