The Role of Education in Sudan's Civil War

Autor/in	Breidlid, Anders
Titel	The Role of Education in Sudan's Civil War
Quelle	In: Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 43 (2013) 1, S.35-47 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-1538
DOI	10.1007/s11125-012-9257-3
Schlagwörter	Role of Education; Religious Cultural Groups; Developing Nations; Foreign Countries; War; Religion; Role of Religion; Ideology; Islam; Ethnicity; Discourse Analysis; Political Attitudes; Curriculum; Futures (of Society); Conflict Resolution; Sudan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsauftrag; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ausland; Krieg; Ideologie; Ethnizität; Diskursanalyse; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Future; Society; Zukunft; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung
Abstract	This article addresses the role that education plays in conflict, with specific reference to the civil war in Sudan. It analyses the ideological basis of the Sudanese government (GoS) during the civil war, with special reference to the role of religion and ethnicity. It shows how the primary education system was based on the Islamist ideology of the GoS, with limited consideration of the country's various cultural and religious groups. It then discusses the political discourse of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) and the secular curriculum that SPLM's Secretariat of Education produced during the war. It identifies differences between the Islamist and the secular educational discourses as one reason why many young people in the South took up arms against the Islamist government. With South Sudan now emerging as an independent nation, a dramatic improvement in the education sector is needed both to heal conflicts in South Sudan and to provide hope for the future to people in the South. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10