This paper examines the history and background of the South Sudan Defence Forces, including its numerous separate components and their respective leaderships. By drawing on existing research it explores the relationship of these various elements with both the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement. Download
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The World Food Programme has been providing humanitarian food assistance to vulnerable communities and groups in Southern Sudan for over twenty years, but circumstances have changed following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January 2005. The Feinstein International Center undertook this review of programs in Southern Sudan in 2006 to help WFP Sudan make the needed changes to adapt to these new circumstances. Download
This report summarizes a two-day policy advisory group seminar on 20 and 21 April 2006 in Franschhoek, South Africa. The objective of this meeting was to assess the signing of the CPA. The seminar sought to devise policy recommendations on how South Sudan can use the opportunity of the signing of the CPA to promote peace. Download
As the one-year anniversary of the CPA approached, NDI and the SSCCSE undertook this research to better understand the response of ordinary men and women to the events they have witnessed over the past year. This report is based on a series of 32 focus groups conducted in 14 locations across Southern Sudan and the Three Areas in 2006. Download
This report (2006) reviews the first six months of the National Unity Government that resulted from the CPA. It concludes the National Unity government has not yet provided the anticipated power sharing mechanisms and reform of legislation. Visit here.
This report (2006) examines the overlap between commercial activity (focussing on the oil and agriculture sectors) and human rights abuses in Sudan, thereby focusing on the NIF government’s economic activities. Download
This report (2006) refers to a meeting on Return and Reintegration of Refugees and IDPs in Post Conflict Sudan. With the end of the civil war in 2005 many Sudanese IDPs and refugees moved back to what was then Southern Sudan. The conference aimed at discussing livelihoods, access to services, protection and development for returnees.
This report is a review of the literature on local peace processes in Sudan, from the 1980s to 2006. It presents such processes by a series of case studies of particularly significant local peace processes.
This municipal assessment of Juba of 2005 examines greater Juba’s planning priorities, options, and opportunities, conducted an analysis of the current municipal administrative structure and existing records pertaining to land transactions and town planning, and examined existing governmental capacity to manage land, housing, building, and planning in a period of rapid change. Download
This briefing (2005) explores the possible implications of John Garang’s death on the peace process in Sudan. Download
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