This article (2007) analyses the South Sudan Defence Force’s organisational dynamics, the impact of its ongoing presence on the security situation and reconstruction efforts, and attempts by the government of South Sudan to counteract the SSDF from January to August 2006. Link to publication
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This article explores specific oral histories and chiefship debates in the aftermath of the SPLA war in two Southern Sudanese chiefdoms. It argues that these local histories reveal much about the historical relationship between state and society – and in particular the mediation with external violence – which is central to understanding the legitimacy of local authority. Link to publication
This report presents findings from focus groups discussions that aimed to understand the attitudes, opinions and experiences of participants of self-governance in Southern Sudan in 2007. Download
This article resents an empirical mapping of the White Army militias as well as a detailed analysis of the disarmament strategies that were implemented for them during the course of 2006. Link to publication
This study from 2007 investigates the (possible) reintegration if internally displaced people returning to Southern Sudan and the Three Areas in the wake of the signing of the CPA.
This study analyzes SPLM’s transition from a rebel movement to a political party. It presents the findings on SPLM structures, capacity and processes of decision making in three states. Download
This article examines a structural opposition between the sphere of military/government (the ‘hakuma’) and the sphere of ‘home’. It argues that to be a ‘youth’ in Southern Sudan means to inhabit the tensions of the space between these spheres. While attempting to resist capture by either sphere, youth have used their recruitment by the military to invest in their home or family sphere. Their aspiration to ‘responsibility’ illustrates not generational rebellion, but the moral continuity…
This report from 2007 assesses several critical environmental issues – such as land degradation, deforestation and the impacts of climate change – that threaten Sudan’s prospects for long-term peace, food security and sustainable development. Download
In this book, Jok Madut Jok delves deep into Sudan’s culture and past, isolating the factors that have caused its fractured national identity. He describes how Sudan is a country in turmoil, ravaged by civil war, plagued by roaming gangs of rebel and government militia. Because government propaganda, tales of state-sponsored murder, genocide and humanitarian crises are rife, he argues that there is a real need for a measured investigation which carefully examines the causes…
This paper presents the ethnic and ideological factors in the Sudan crisis as products of other processes, notably the strategies adopted by successive governments for managing the peripheries and the militarisation of society. It differs from many scholarly analyses in its emphasis on the importance of failed consolidation at the centre of power. The implication of the analysis is that Sudan faces possibly insuperable challenges in attempting to achieve democracy and a fair distribution of…
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