This report looks forward from January 2015 to quantify the economic costs that would be incurred by South Sudan, other countries in the neighbouring region, and the wider international community, should the conflict continue. Download
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The CSRF Research Repository aims to support greater contextual knowledge for policy makers, programme managers, and implementers by providing a searchable repository of research, analysis, and resources, and providing periodic updates on new research and analysis.
This analysis (2015) reviews the Arusha Reunification Agreement and attempts to spur public debate on a newly instituted effort towards a genuine search for peace in South Sudan. This review also summarizes the main points of the Agreement, assesses public response, and sketchily provides some pointers for practice.
The repoort distils field evidence into concrete recommendations for the international community. Download
By looking at the war in Jonglei, this report explains the wider constellation of regional and national challenges to peace and patterns of war. Download
This joint agency note presents some main findings on food security and the response of the international community since December 2013. Download
This report revisits the Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) and breaks down the major criticism it received, thereby attempting to distil key ideas for current and future humanitarian responses.
This paper (2014) is a brief reflection on the situation in South Sudan at that time, based on meetings with the Government of the Republic of South Sudan, donors, humanitarian agencies, and members of South Sudanese civil society during a two-week mission by SLRC members in mid- to late June 2014. It outlines a few observations on humanitarian crisis; the breakdown of post-conflict mechanisms that were being put in place prior to the outbreak of…
This analysis (2014) attempts to look at the South Sudanese crisis by weighing the costs of a stalemate peace process in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In doing so, the author specifically looks at conflict in relation to peace dynamics, the nature of the talks, and what and who may help break the stalemate to bring this violence to an end.
This report presents the results from a household survey in Aweil North County in Northern Bahr el Ghazal. The report presents the threats that the respondents identified as occurring in their communities. It also looks at how respondents perceived and responded to two particular threats (killing and aerial bombardment, which were identified by about a quarter of respondents as happening in their communities). Finally, it presents the respondents’ perceptions of the army, the police, local…
This paper gives a thematic analysis of the Chinese, Indian, Russian and Brazilian engagements in Sudan after 2005, with particular interest in the changing nature and trajectory of these relationships after the establishment of South Sudan in 2011. Download
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