Change, Progress, And Future In The Light of Peace In South Sudan

2/April/2020

In the following article, I will deal with the ideas of change, progress, future, and peace in South Sudan.

Change:

Change is an inevitability; in that, when we are facing certain axioms, we sometimes need to accept them.

Currently, our country is undergoing several changes in a very slow pace. The changes has turned out to be diversely placed in a naturalistic manner, if I  am not mistaken.

The changes are;

 1. Political 2. Economical 3. Social and 4. Military in essence.

1. Political change:

The political changes has began already.  The political parties in our country that had undergone several phases of negotiations will bring about great transformation.

This sort of transformation; would result into a positive or negative changes, depending on the way they will run the government in this transitional period.

2. Economical change:

There are no known adapted theories of economics that are adopted in South Sudan as an independent nation. The adaptation of a certain economic system nationally leads to a steady progression. But since the nation is lacking the proper economic system, other than following international trends,   there wouldn't be any serious transformation to be seen in the nearest future.

3. Social change:

This depends a lot on the way the society has been structured. The social structure or hierarchy in our country is not orderly. The country is more of a communist Christian nation than of the socialist nature.  This hinders easy transformation of the social system if the society has become stagnant.

4. Military changes in Essence:

The South Sudanese military hierarchy is not fully runned in the manner which is expected from an independent nation.  We do not have the laws in place to initiate the gun control.

 The code of ethics to be followed by the army is not in place. Since soldiers could easily sell of their  guns to a non_military personnel. Leading to misuse of guns and other military weapons in the society.

If this system will continue, how do we expect the non military persons who are misusing the guns to change?

The complete integration of our military will lead to a great transformation for a stronger (SSPDF) South Sudan People's Defend Forces. This is only if there's stability in the military system. And only if there's no existing differing factions that will serve a different purpose.

Progress:

The progress  of our nation state depends on how we handles the issues pertaining to economy, military, political, and social aspects.  Without changing those areas in a positive manner, we can not see any change.

Future and Peace:

Our future is also dependent on the way we handles the current affairs. If the currently negotiated peace progresses well in this transitional government, we will expect to have a clear future. Otherwise, the future might be muddy, that we as a nation will not drink any clean water.

The future depends on peace which we withholds. And so does the peace depends on the future of South Sudan.

Author's Notes:

 This article has completely covered the pending issues pertaining to national progression. In this transitional period and the future of the country.

About the author:

Born: 30/Dec/1993

Machiek Machiek Akuocpiir Cayier is a Student of Science and Technology pursuing the Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering at the International University of East Africa in Kampala Uganda.

  He is a South Sudanese Intellectual, Poet, Rapper, Translator, Model, Philosopher, and Software Engineer.

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