Customary Law in the Modern World The Crossfire of Sudan's War of Identities

Name: Customary Law in the Modern World The Crossfire of Sudan's War of Identities
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ISBN: 9780710313386

ISBN-10: 0710313381

ISBN-13: 9780710313386

Edition: 2009

Authors: Francis Deng, Francis Mading Deng

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Sudan -- where the world's longest civil war has been fought for 21 years -- is now the proving ground for customary law. The educated elite, particularly in the Arabized, Islamicized North, see customary law as backwards and incapable of coping with modernity, but the reality is that most Sudanese in the South adhere to it. In the context of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) concluded in 2005 between the warring sides, customary law is being projected as a central element in the Southern identity for which the people fought and also as an important source of legislation, constitutionalism and the rule of law for the government of Southern Sudan. Although the shortcomings of customary…

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List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/29/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.20" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English