This paper gives a personal assessment of the local needs of the Southern Sudanese population in the period of societal reconstruction that is envisaged in the likely event of a meaningful peace agreement being realized between the Southern Sudanese people (via the SPLM/A) and the Government of Sudan (GoS) in 2004. Download
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This report from 2004 examines lessons from peacebuilding efforts during the 1990s. “Peacebuilding” commonly refers to a set of transitional activities to implement peace agreements after civil wars. Activities normally include managing the transition from relief to economic recovery and longer term development; return of refugees and displaced persons; security sector reform; (re)constructing social and economic infrastructure; (re)building political institutions for democratic rule; and promoting human rights and accountability for past violations in a system…
This paper from 2004 examines the consequences of ethnic factionalism in Sudan’s conflict, memories of domination and victimization prior to and during last civil war, and circumstances for interethnic relations among Sudanes refugees in Adjumani and Cairo. Link to publication
This paper from 2002 attempts to survey the corrigendum present within the underlying OLS relief structure using both specific insights into the mistakes made in the 1998 Bahr el- Ghazal relief operation as well as a broader analysis of the inherent weaknesses within the triangular network of: relief agencies, donor governments, and political influences within the Sudan. The paper identifies key issues that are likely to be as relevant for conflict dynamics and the humanitarian…
This study (2000) puts into perspective the internal, regional, continental and global dimensions of conflict and conflict resolution in Sudan in relation to the past civil war. Download
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
The research on which this report is based began with the assumption that there was a gap in the knowledge that relief agencies had. The report tries to bridge that gap by describing the political, kinship, religious and economic structures amongst the Dinka, before going on to look at the welfare structure, the circumstances surrounding vulnerability, and possible ways of addressing that vulnerability in programme interventions. Found in the Sudan Open Archive. View here.
This paper discusses the institutional and organizational characteristics of the state administration in Southern Sudan and its relationship with the foreign non-governmental aid organisations in the period between the Addis Ababa peace agreement in 1972 and the collapse of the administrative structure in the middle of the 1980s. It focuses on two different but interrelated phenomena. Firstly, an empirical description and analysis of the state and structure of the public bureaucracy and its characteristics and…
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