This paper is an attempt to gain a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of vulnerability during protracted civil war. It shows that during civil war the non-poor are not necessarily less vulnerable than poor households Link to publication
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The report (2008) presents the results of village assessments conducted in four states of SouthernSudan and Southern Kordofan. The results are part of the IOM Village Assessment Programme, which is commited to extend support returnees. The report covers access to services, income generation, food resources as well as shelter and housing. Download
UNICEF conflict survey and analysis of grassroots conflicts in Sudan (including Southern Sudan). Download
This paper examines the assets management strategies adopted by households exposed to prolonged civil war. The paper is based on fieldwork conducted in Bahr el Ghazal region. The paper reviews and critiques risk management approaches in the context of the past civil war. Download
This paper from 2002 attempts to survey the corrigendum present within the underlying OLS relief structure using both specific insights into the mistakes made in the 1998 Bahr el- Ghazal relief operation as well as a broader analysis of the inherent weaknesses within the triangular network of: relief agencies, donor governments, and political influences within the Sudan. The paper identifies key issues that are likely to be as relevant for conflict dynamics and the humanitarian…
Ever since power struggles within the Sudan People’s Liberation Army split the movement into two warring factions in August 1991, rural Nuer and Dinka communities of the South have been grappling with a deepening regional subculture of ethnicized violence. This article (1999) describes political factors that have pro- longed this bitter conflict into the present and have contributed to the post-1991 polarization and militarization of Dinka and Nuer ethnic identities. Link to publication
This study from 1999 attempts to identify empirically, types of participation by beneficiaries of food aid and their communities over a geographically and socially limited area. (i.e. Southern Sudan). This is achieved through a description of the experience of some of the 12 UK based NGOs covered by the Disasters’ Emergency Committee (DEC) evaluation of the South Sudan humanitarian programme (OLS) in consulting with the beneficiaries and involving them in the planning, management, monitoring and…
This article (1999) examines the effects of the militarisation of youth in Southern Sudan on women’s reproductive well-being. Link to publication
The 1999 Wunlit Peace and Reconciliation Conference is the best-known and most comprehensively documented of the local peace conferences held in South Sudan during the second civil war. The conference took place in Wunlit, a village in Bahr el Ghazal near the border between the Dinka of the Lakes region, and the Nuer of Western Upper Nile. The reconciliation between these communities that was negotiated at Wunlit after eight years of internecine strife marked a…
This report investigates the 1998 food crisis in Sudan and reveals how the fault lies primarily with Sudanese government and militias and opposition forces that precipitated the famine and deliberately diverted or looted food from the starving or blocked relief deliveries. Download
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