“Something is rotten in the state of [power-sharing]” why we celebrate the failures of peacebuilding in Burundi and South Sudan

The abstract outlines my Masters dissertation project, where I used a critical discourse analysis based on cognitive dissonance theory to evaluate how and why failures in power-sharing-based peacebuilding are celebrated and excused, using the contexts of Burundi and South Sudan to interpret the longevity of this deficient peacebuilding tool.