ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter analyses the looming challenge and prospects of the adoption of a permanent constitution in South Sudan. It examines various approaches and ideas of understanding the political stakes of merging these constitution-making and peace processes in South Sudan. The failure to work towards a new constitution in South Sudan is symptomatic of many factors, including land reform, poor leadership and the weak and unstable structure of peacekeeping. After analyzing these factors and approaches, the chapter then turns attention to the constitutional and peace process in South Sudan and examines their problematic dynamics and the challenges they pose for adopting a permanent constitution. The aim of this chapter is to analyze both of these processes and understand the sources of their divergence and possible convergence. The chapter concludes that it is in the interests of the ruling political elites to bring together these divergent processes.
