This report discusses the shortfalls in the concepts, practices and programming approaches upon which the international community based its support for the development of the security and justice sector in South Sudan between 1983 and 2013. It is based on the author’s work on justice- and security-related programming in South Sudan from 2010 until 2013 and research carried out in South Sudan in 2014. Download
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This article examines the interfaces in South Sudan between local customary legal systems, nascent statutory regimes and internationally promoted human rights standards. Link to publication
This study from 2004, carried out through a partnership between FAO, UNHCR and NRC investigated existing agreements, statutes and customs, international documents and research on land dispute resolution mechanisms and propose recommendations for the immediate, short, medium and long term use of arbitration, mediation and conciliation and of the traditional equivalents of these legal tools. Download
This report is a review of Customary Law in contemporary southern Sudan. Its purpose is to examine the history of customary law and the principal customary legal systems currently in use in the region. It also studies how the various customary law systems function, the strengths and weaknesses of customary law and areas where conflict, actual or potential, exists between the different systems, domestic statutory and international law, particularly with regard to human rights. Finally,…
This document discusses the history, composition and activities of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army at a Human Rights meeting in Geneva in 1999. Download
Exposition of the state of customary laws in the Dinka and Azande communities of Southern Sudan. The case studies are set in the period of the civil war that broke out in 1983, and include cases of the SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Army) soldiers interacting with the local populations.
Resolutions of the SPLM/SPLA First National Convention, April 12, 1994. Found in the Sudan Open Archive.
NUER courts and court procedure are an innovation of the Anglo-Egyptian government.’ It was a necessary innovation, according to administrators, because of the lack of institutionally authoritative figures among the Nuer, or of an ‘organised political body’ which met regularly, could enforce its decisions, and could therefore maintain public order.The government chose the parallel courses of tradition – administering a law derived from Nuer custom – and innovation – establishing institutions and procedures which were…
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