This article compares two cases of securitization along South Sudan’s border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By comparing how a security concern – the presence of the Lord’s Resistance Army – was interpreted and responded to, the article shows that border security practices in two borderscapes are improvised, contradictory and contested, and serve to establish authority rather than actually securing the border. This is apparent on three levels: (a) through the multiplicity of…
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This study on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the border region of DR Congo, Sudan and Uganda provides a brief chronology of conflict events, and an overview of the different responses. It concludes with the description of near-future scenarios and the few recommendations that can be made in 2009. Download
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