The Politics of Numbers: On Security Sector Reform in South Sudan, 2005-2020 is the first comprehensive study of what has happened to South Sudan’s military forces since the end of the Sudanese second civil war in 2005. Based on extensive fieldwork in the country, the report argues that all of the international community’s efforts to create a unified armed forces in South Sudan have paradoxically only escalated the process of fracturing that led to the current…
Entries by Joshua Craze
The civil war that began in South Sudan in December 2013 has had dire consequences for the Shilluk of Upper Nile. Attacks by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and allied militia forces have forcibly displaced tens of thousands of people. Many of those displaced have fled to Sudan—just as they did during the second civil war (1983–2005)—where they eke out an uncertain existence. On the east bank of the White Nile, where there was…
Contemporary debates about humanitarianism in South Sudan focus on the pressing problems of the present, with access issues and violence against humanitarians understandably at the forefront of donor and humanitarian concerns. While valuable and comprehensible, this focus on the present has meant that the ways in which aid shapes conflict in the long term have not been discussed, and are not well understood by humanitarian actors in South Sudan. This paper focuses on a particular…
This report explores the first two years of the South Sudanese civil war in Unity and analyses its underlying conflict dynamics. Download
This report focuses on recent developments in the border zone of Sudan and South Sudan. Download
Joshua Craze revisits the border between South Sudan and Sudan two years after the independence of South Sudan and explores conflict dynamics along the border, including conflicts related to grazing. https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/169154/HSBA-WP30-North-South-Border.pdf
This paper explores how the emergence of a national border has affected the communities in the region, based on five case studies primarily through the lens of the 2011-2012 grazing season, the first since South Sudan’s independence. Download
This article comments on the execution and effects of the 2008 census, mandated as part of the 2005 CPA. Link to the publication