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Customary Protection? Chiefs’ courts as public authority in UN Protection of Civilian sites in South Sudan

This paper examines the initiatives of people living in PoC sites – functionally, internally displaced people (IDPs) – to invigorate their own authority structures and security and justice mechanisms. In particular, we focus upon the practices of customary chiefs’ courts.

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