Publisher's Synopsis
"Following its independence in 2011, three years of civil war have left South Sudan on the cusp of full-scale genocide, with its sovereignty discredited by warring elites, asserts a new Council Special Report, Ending South Sudan's Civil War. 'The only remaining path to protect [South Sudan's] sovereignty and territorial integrity, restore its legitimacy, and politically empower its citizens is through an international transitional administration, established by the United Nations and the African Union (AU), to run the country for a finite period,' argues Katherine Almquist Knopf, the author of the report. Knopf ... makes the case that an international transitional administration is the only realistic path to end the violence and to allow South Sudan the kind of 'clean break' from its leaders and power structures that can restore the country to viability. Moreover, she argues that an international transitional administration would not ne
