ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. The book discusses the dominant explanations on the origins of contemporary violent armed conflict. It analyses the changes and evolution in the traditional and dominant models for resolving conflicts and building peace, by stressing their limited agenda and priorities and the way in which they tend to obscure much more complex inequalities and dynamics that sustain and reproduce conflict. The book focuses on the North-South conflict in Sudan, where the traditional narratives evolved from a simplistic interpretation of conflict based on religious differences between a Muslim North and a Christian South to one that added the importance of more structural and visible inequalities of the Southern population and where resolution efforts culminated in the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005.
