Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen (Institut f r Politikwissenschaft), course: Hauptseminar: Analyse der B rgerkriege, language: English, abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the period of the Addis Ababa Peace (1972-1983) in Sudan and the outbreak of the second Sudanese Civil War between North and South Sudan. This paper assumes that the outbreak of the second civil war took its roots from the struggle between elites to maintain political power and economic enrichment rather than the known ethnocultural or religious differences between the North and the South Sudan.