Complete takeover: A plan for international administration of South Sudan for a transitional period
A Transitional International Administration for South Sudan
BY CHESTER A. CROCKER
Neighboring states, the African Union, the United Nations, and Western nations have repeatedly tried to get them to return to negotiations in order to restore some form of inter-ethnic power sharing.Since the latest fragile peace broke down in July, outsiders have once again been trying to help, proposing similar ideas and authorizing additional, more robust UN troop contingents in hopes of protecting civilians, as well as the UN’s other, less robust contingents. Their efforts are unlikely to succeed for long, if at all. Civilians—along with oil and guns—are the stakes in this leader-driven, ethnic bloodletting that expresses itself mainly in Nuer-Dinka antipathy.There are three options.