{"id":211102,"date":"2015-12-23T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T07:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-roadmap-for-peace-in-south-sudan\/"},"modified":"2015-12-23T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:21:09","slug":"a-roadmap-for-peace-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/a-roadmap-for-peace-in-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Roadmap for Peace in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 732px;\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Oxfam International \/ Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The news out of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/endgenocide.org\/conflict-areas\/south-sudan\/\">South Sudan<\/a>\u00a0over the past two years has been devastating. And as we mark the beginning of the third year of conflict, the risk of famine and further atrocities remains grave.<\/p>\n<p>But not all the news is bad. In 2015, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/endgenocide.org\/the-first-step-for-peace-in-south-sudan\/\">peace agreement was signed<\/a>\u00a0following increased regional and international efforts. The coming year has the potential to see that peace consolidated \u2013 if the country\u2019s leaders follow through.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.7;\">Below are three pieces of good news that came out of South Sudan in 2015 and three steps that must be taken to ensure that 2016 ends the trend of violence in the world\u2019s newest nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Peace Deal Signed<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 It took immense\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/endgenocide.org\/you-spoke-up-and-president-obama-spoke-out-on-south-sudan\/\">international effort<\/a>\u00a0and far too long, but in August 2015 the Compromise Peace Agreement was signed laying out a road map for democratic transition. Key to the deal is a power-sharing arrangement in which rebel leader and former Vice President Riek Machar returns to the capital Juba as a deputy in a 30-month transitional period leading up to new elections.<\/p>\n<p>A Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) was set up led by former President of Botswana Festus Mogae and with strong backing by the UN and African Union. Implementation has already been delayed and the ceasefire violated on both sides, but the road map remains and with sustained international attention progress can be made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Civilians Protected<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has prioritized protection of civilians and continues to shelter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=52714#.Vm8Tn7_Yh2A\">over 180,000<\/a>\u00a0people in protection of civilian sites around the country. Despite government protests, UNMISS\u2019 civilian protection mandate is set to be renewed and its force strengthened with additional peacekeepers. While challenges remain in maintaining the sites, this remains an unprecedented move that has saved tens of thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/endgenocide.org\/two-years-of-conflict-but-theres-road-map-for-peace-in-south-sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo: Oxfam International \/ Flickr) The news out of\u00a0South Sudan\u00a0over the past two years has been devastating. And as we mark the beginning of the third year of conflict, the risk of famine and further atrocities remains grave. But not all the news is bad. In 2015, a\u00a0peace agreement was signed\u00a0following increased regional and international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-211102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}