TY - JOUR
T1 - Waging peace through improvisational action
T2 - Track-two diplomacy in the Sudan-Uganda conflict
AU - Papa, Michael J.
AU - Mapendere, Jeffrey
AU - Dillon, Patrick J.
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - In 1999 former President Carter and The Carter Center (TCC) negotiated the Nairobi Agreement restoring diplomatic relations between Sudan and Uganda. This study examined the track-two diplomatic activities undertaken by TCC to implement the Nairobi Agreement from 2000 to 2004. We seek to stimulate new thinking about the communicative dimensions of peacemaking in complicated hostile environments. Based on our analysis of TCC's involvement in the peace implementation process in Sudan and Uganda, we found that the implementation of a peace agreement required significant use of improvisational action, which was displayed in six ways: (a) organizational renewal, (b) reworking precomposed materials, (c) acting on uncharted ground, (d) orchestrating activities of multiple organizations, (e) negation of past practices, and (f) organizationally mandated.
AB - In 1999 former President Carter and The Carter Center (TCC) negotiated the Nairobi Agreement restoring diplomatic relations between Sudan and Uganda. This study examined the track-two diplomatic activities undertaken by TCC to implement the Nairobi Agreement from 2000 to 2004. We seek to stimulate new thinking about the communicative dimensions of peacemaking in complicated hostile environments. Based on our analysis of TCC's involvement in the peace implementation process in Sudan and Uganda, we found that the implementation of a peace agreement required significant use of improvisational action, which was displayed in six ways: (a) organizational renewal, (b) reworking precomposed materials, (c) acting on uncharted ground, (d) orchestrating activities of multiple organizations, (e) negation of past practices, and (f) organizationally mandated.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960010474&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1041794x.2010.504447
DO - 10.1080/1041794x.2010.504447
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960010474
SN - 1041-794X
VL - 75
SP - 349
EP - 369
JO - Southern Communication Journal
JF - Southern Communication Journal
IS - 4
ER -