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Truth or Reconciliation Mechanism – 2005

The 2005 CPA provided that the national unity government would work out mechanisms and forms for national reconciliation. The CPA also suggested that the presidency would start peace and reconciliation process for Abyei.

No significant efforts were made to promote the national reconciliation process by the national unity government in 2005. Similarly, the presidency was divided and it failed to make the decisions required to implement the report submitted by the Abyei Boundary Commission.¹ The division within the presidency and the National Congress Party and the SPLM on boundary report did not help the initiation of the peace and reconciliation process for Abyei.

Nevertheless, a delegation from the Sudanese Peace and Reconciliation Commission of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement went to Rwanda to learn from its reconciliation experience, focusing especially on its unity and reconciliation process, the repatriation of refugees, and the establishment of an unique armed force.²

1. “The CPA Monitor-Monthly report on the Implementation of the CPA,” UNMIS, February 2006.
2. “South Sudan Delegation Visiting Rwanda to Learn About Reconciliation Process,” BBC Monitoring Africa, November 12, 2005.