Efficiency of Community-Based Peacemaking: Cases from the Blue Nile and the Greater Darfur of Sudan

Peacemaking usually is a part of every society’s culture, and in each society ordinarily some methods are favored over others in accordance with the current situation. This paper focuses on how traditional community-centered approaches to peacemaking become inefficient and how more efficient replacements are then tailored to the particular situation. Implicitly, the paper argues that when peaceful coexistence within or between communities breaks down there are better and worse ways of peacemaking and that there are several political and social factors, which could influence the efficiency of such ways.
In this paper we consider designs of community-based peacemaking as they have developed in the Blue Nile and the Greater Darfur (in Sudan). In these two regions there are a number of community institutions that often play key roles in bringing people together after a conflict and operate with a certain social nature.