Entries by American Bar Association Rule of Law Inititative

The human tragedy that has occurred in South Sudan since mid-December 2013 has been widely reported. In brief, a political struggle in South Sudan’s dominant political party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, erupted at a party conference on December 15 in the capital of Juba. The struggle immediately turned into a fast-spreading conflict along ethnic lines. Despite two agreed upon ceasefires, large-scale military operations and ethnic killings continue on all sides. Schools, hospitals, churches and…