Elections in December 2024 are foreseen as the culmination of South Sudan’s recovery from its civil war. Focusing on the role of the role of South Sudan’s civil society on the peace processes from 2015-2018, the article explores the intersection between the efficacy and legitimacy of the civil society in the peace progress, including in state formation and state building in South Sudan. Read more here
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The South Sudan intermittent conflicts and civil wars have attracted national, regional, and international interventions. Dominated by politically led conventional ideologies of peace approaches that revolve around suppression, negotiation, and mediation, such approaches have not achieved sustainable peace in the region. The case for societal customs presented here demonstrates a contrary view. Historically, the Nilotic Lwo ethnic groups of South Sudan, that is, Dinka and Nuer, have fought each other but utilised their customs in…
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