This article focuses, in particular, on the church’s role as peacebuilder. Long a key player in conflict resolution, both directly at the local level and indirectly at the national and international level, the work of the South Sudanese church also illustrates well what has come to be called “strategic peacebuilding.” Link to publication
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CSRF Research Repository
The CSRF Research Repository aims to support greater contextual knowledge for policy makers, programme managers, and implementers by providing a searchable repository of research, analysis, and resources, and providing periodic updates on new research and analysis.
This review (2013) discusses the current and past status of the disputed Abyei region.
This paper investigates the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)’s initiative to provide 199 civil service support officers (CSSOs) to South Sudan, where they are twinned with counterparts across many ministries and sectors to develop core government capacity in a coaching and mentoring scheme. Download
Report of a seminar and workshop to bring together Chinese and South Sudanese stakeholders on how China’s economic cooperation in the development, infrastructure, and extractive sectors could be more conflict-sensitive. Download
This paper argues that to achieve peace and stability within and between Sudan and South Sudan, the United States must now refocus its diplomatic engagement on the internal governance challenges in both states by moving to more normal diplomatic relations with each. Download
This report focuses on human rights violations committed in Western Bahr El Ghazal State between December 2012 and January 2013. Download
This is the second in a series of Policy Briefs focusing on the international community’s opportunity to help support peace within Sudan and between the two Sudans. Download
A study of the current state of agricultural markets in South Sudan to inform USAID food aid programming decisions. Download
This report from 2012 analyses how local, national and international dynamics around independence in July 2011 and the end of the six-and-a-half-year formal Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) process with Sudan have impacted on peace and conflict in 2011–2012 and how they are likely to influence peace and development over the next decade. Download
Critical examination of fortified aid compounds, such as in Juba. Download
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