This document from 2000 reviews the literature on internally displaced, refugees and returnees from and in the Sudan. Download
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This report offers an independent analysis of the ‘Ground Rules’ agreed between the UN’s Operation Lifeline Sudan and SPLM/A leader John Garang in July 1995. It argues that the influence of the Ground Rules is evident in five areas: in the regulation and coordination of the humanitarian programme in southern Sudan; in the system of security; in the management of assistance; in protection activities; and in capacity-building and good governance.
This guide is a compilation of some of the forms of descriptive analysis that WFP and partners have undertaken since 1994.
In the last few years, a number of different research and data collection activities in the field of indigenous food plants have been undertaken in southern Sudan. To date, three studies have been carried out: Save the Children and World Food Program (WFP) supported an independent study of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile, Lakes and the Ironstone Plateau; UNICEF carried out a similar study in eastern and western Equatoria, parts of Upper Nile and Bahr…
This article discusses gender violence, domestic and beyond, in wartime southern Sudan, particularly among the Dinka of southwestern Sudan. Furthermore, it discusses the efforts of rebel armies, fighting against the northern government of Sudan, to forge a woman’s role in the liberation struggle. The effort has focused on the women’s reproductive roles as their contribution. This “nationalization” of the womb has nearly licensed young violent men to assume rights over women’s sexuality–often leading to rape….
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
This article traces the military and diplomatic stalemate in the Sudan from 1955 to the 1990s, with special attention directed to events of the 1980s. Link to publication
Ever since power struggles within the Sudan People’s Liberation Army split the movement into two warring factions in August 1991, rural Nuer and Dinka communities of the South have been grappling with a deepening regional subculture of ethnicized violence. This article (1999) describes political factors that have pro- longed this bitter conflict into the present and have contributed to the post-1991 polarization and militarization of Dinka and Nuer ethnic identities. Link to publication
This study from 1999 attempts to identify empirically, types of participation by beneficiaries of food aid and their communities over a geographically and socially limited area. (i.e. Southern Sudan). This is achieved through a description of the experience of some of the 12 UK based NGOs covered by the Disasters’ Emergency Committee (DEC) evaluation of the South Sudan humanitarian programme (OLS) in consulting with the beneficiaries and involving them in the planning, management, monitoring and…
This study, commissioned by New Sudan Council of Churches and Pax Christi, was undertaken with the objectives to examine the causes of the community violence and conflict; whether or not the disarmament was comprehensive, and impartial and its impact on community harmony and peace; Whether or not there were any resistance to the exercise; to inform policy strategy for a future participatory, peaceful, voluntary and sustainable disarmament in South Sudan and finally to make recommendations…
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