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…
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This working paper from 2007 provides an account of the the Nuer ‘white army’ located in central and eastern Upper Nile region. Download
This paper (2007) examines the future of food security in Sudan by reviewing, and extrapolating from, recent patterns of trade and conflict. The paper considers important (and ostensibly encouraging) economic data and analyses some of the underlying political and economic processes driving food insecurity in Sudan. Link to publication
The purpose of this article is to highlight the critical role of ethnic, cultural and religious diversity in peacebuilding and constitution-making in post-conflict Sudan. Link to publication
This book chapter (2005) considers the position of youth and children in the context of the on-going war in Sudan, focusing in particular on the war-provoked and growing contradiction between norms held by the Dinka about the importance of children and childbearing and what young people went through during the second round of the north-south conflict. Link to publication
Victims of warfare, famine, slavery, and isolation, the Southern Sudanese are one of the most undereducated populations in the world. Since the inception of formal education in southern Sudan a century ago, schooling has largely consisted of island-like entities surrounded by oceans of educational emptiness. Islands of Education is the first book to comprehensively examine this harrowing educational reality. The most recent civil war in southern Sudan raged unrelentingly for 21 years and left approximately…
This article (2004) attempts to analyse the emergence of the South Sudan Defence Force, classify its various components, identify its leaders and understand their concerns. Against this background it will also consider the implications that recent developments in the security sphere in southern Sudan hold for the prospects of peace. Download
This article (2003) summarizes the effects of the Civil War on the Sudanese society, in general, and on youth and children, in particular. Download
This paper examines the assets management strategies adopted by households exposed to prolonged civil war. The paper is based on fieldwork conducted in Bahr el Ghazal region. The paper reviews and critiques risk management approaches in the context of the past civil war. Download
This study reviews the cattle marketing system of 2002 with its constraints and potentials, makes proposals for its improvement and investigates possible new market outlets. It also examines the need for training for traders and others.
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