CANCELLED: The state of peace in Africa
Due to unforeseen events, this seminar is unfortunately cancelled.
Breakfast seminar: How to ensure democratic resilience in Europe?
NUPI invites you to take part in the discussion about how we can safeguard democracy in Europe.
Hermine Van Coppenolle
Hermine Van Coppenolle was a visiting researcher with NUPI, where she worked with the PULLP project on climate ambition within the UNFCCC. She was...
Dorthea Gradek
Dorthea Gradek is a Research Fellow in the Research group on security and defence.She is primarily researching space governance and the EU's space...
Rebundling sovereignty over local nature in global governance (RESOLVING)
How does the global governance of nature transform the exercise of sovereign power? ...
Breakfast seminar: How to Stop Corporate Tax Evasion and Ensure Fair Global Taxation?
Every year, the world loses $311 billion as multinational companies—often entirely legally—move money to tax havens, even though the profits are earned in other countries.
Consolidating peace? The inner struggles of Sudan’s transition agreement
The use of transitional agreements to resolve differences between the state and non-state armed actors across the African continent appears to be on the rise. However, many of these transitional agreements tend to be stagnant and fail to deal with grievances, causes of political unrest and conflict or to provide sustainable paths to democracy. Drawing on the civilian-led Transitional Government of Sudan from 11 April 2019 to 25 October 2021 (the length of the transitional agreement), and an original dataset, this article argues that the policies of the transitional government of Sudan, political rhetoric and the challenges of implementing transitional agreement policies did not align with political realities. This was primarily due to the inability of the Transitional Government of Sudan to dismantle existing power structures under previous regimes. We find that the Transitional Government of Sudan neglected to consider path dependencies of the previous regimes, which led to its being unable to provide the people of Sudan with strategies that could help to circumvent existing structures set up by past regimes. As a result, the efforts of the Transitional Government of Sudan acted as exacerbators of existing inner struggles. The article argues for the need for better technical support and provisions to support incoming transitional governments trying to emerge from autocracy or dictatorship to democracy during transitional periods.