Timing Reconciliation, Case Study Sudan

Sammanfattning: This study analyses the importance of timing reconciliation in a conflict/peace process in order to reach a sustainable peace. There is a main divide in how the different scholars in the conflict resolution field define reconciliation in being a goal or a process, or both. Mostly reconciliation initiatives are worked with during the post-settlement period but in the protracted conflicts of today the conflicts do not have a “wave-like” timeline and the post-conflict period maybe never comes. I believe that the peace building society puts to much focus on the peace agreement and the post-settlement period when more focus on the peace process before is needed. I start the thesis with an analysis on the theoretical framework and then I continue with a case study on Sudan. A country in an unstable post-settlement period.