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
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This report presents the results of a 4 week field study of the social and anthropological factors behind local governance structures in Southern Sudan – concentrating on the areas of Aweil East and Aweil Centre in Northern Bahr el Ghazal.
Draft transcript of presentation by John Ryle held in Neuchatel, Switzerland, April 14-16, 2005.
This document reports from a workshop on the establishment of a traditional leaders’ forum. Found in the Sudan Open Archive.
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
This report is based on fieldwork conducted in counties inhabited by Nuer speakers in the counties of Payinjar and Leer in western Upper Nile, and Akobo in the central Upper Nile Region. The study explores traditional authorities in the Upper Nile region.
Through presentation of a case study, the paper (2005) highlights the dynamics of refugees’ social relations that extending across multiple geographical locations and examines how these competing spheres affecting refugees are managed. The role played by resettlement agencies responsible for assisting them is also discussed. Ultimately, the paper seeks to open the dialogue on this transformation affecting refugee livelihoods and well being, asking whether there is anything states or organizations can do to mitigate the…
The aim of this chapter is to cast an anthropological eye over the issues of local knowledge, famine relief, and development theory, using the case of southern Sudan to reveal structural weaknesses in the ways local people are seen and represented in conventional development discourse. Information produced by anthropologists has often been praised but subsequently ignored by development practitioners (Saleem-Murdock 1990). Anthropologists have done little to resist being pushed aside on matters of policy as…
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 report is a review of Customary Law in contemporary southern Sudan. Its purpose is to examine the history of customary law and the principal customary legal systems currently in use in the region. It also studies how the various customary law systems function, the strengths and weaknesses of customary law and areas where conflict, actual or potential, exists between the different systems, domestic statutory and international law, particularly with regard to human rights. Finally,…
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