This briefing explains the composition and contributing factors to the emergence of the SPLM-IO. 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 commentary outlines a number of political development that have fuelled the armed conflict since December 2013. Download
This article addresses the social and political implications of wartime and post-war resource capture in South Sudan. It argues that predation by armed groups during the second civil war (1983–2005) initiated a process of dominant class formation, and demonstrates how, through various strategies of resource capture and kinship networks, commanders from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and other factions formed a new aristocracy – a “dominant class” that thinks of itself as “the best”….
This paper offers some further reflections on the topic of reconciliation, following a KOFF organised roundtable to discuss ways in which Swiss actors could support ongoing reconciliation processes in conflict affected South Sudan.
This report describes the process and findings of an evaluation of community-based animal health workers (CAHWs) in Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. Overall, the researchers find that CAHWs continue to be the preferred service provider at the community level, and that their assistance has a significant positive effect on the livelihood impacts of livestock diseases. However, CAHWs are hindered in their work by weak veterinary governance. Similarly, although there is great potential to use CAHWs…
This report presents the findings of investigations and documents by the Human Rights Division of UNMISS and suggests that gross human rights violations were committed on a massive scale with civilians being directly targeted along ethnic lines by both parties of the conflict. These conclusions obligate according to the report that the government of South Sudan to investigate, prosecute and punish those found to be responsible. It argues that South Sudan’s failure to have ever…
By the start of 2014, violent conflict had erupted across much of South Sudan following initial violence in Juba on 15 December 2013. The speed with which the fighting has spread raises questions regarding the impact of national-level politics on violence at the local level. This article develops a framework in which violent conflict can be comprehended as a response to the interruption of the negotiation of the balance of power between groups; the negotiation…
This desk study presents estimations of scale, severity and likely impact of the recent crisis in South Sudan. It aims to inform decision making for preparedness and emergency response and intents to complement and integrate assessment-related data from other agencies. Download
This report seeks to understand how South Sudan moved from fragility at independence to a full-blown crisis of internal and external sovereignty in December 2013, by outlining some of the interfaces and partnerships through which power is shared. Download
This policy brief discusses the national census, implications of the current (2014) violence, and the long-term implications of empty political assurances. Download
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