This report offers a comprehensive account of the situation in then Southern Sudan in 2011, based on 300 interviews in various states. Identifies key issues that are likely to be as relevant for conflict dynamics today as they were in 2011. 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 report explores the root causes of conflict in the cross border zone of Abyei and calls for Sudan and South Sudan as well as the international community to expend more effort in creating mechanisms for guaranteeing and implementing grazing rights.
This chapter summarizes the findings of the 2011 Fragile States Principles Monitoring Survey and the 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration in South Sudan, which are supported by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Download
The 2011 South Sudan referendum has resulted in a mass influx of returnees over the course of the past four months from northern Sudan and border countries such as Uganda, Congo and Kenya. According to the latest UNOCHA figures, over 250,000 people have returned since October 30, 2010. Most returnees are coming with only what they can carry, or fit on the barges, thus arriving with serious humanitarian needs including food, water, shelter and health….
This report focuses on how protection issues are conceptualized and operationalized among international takeholders in Bor, the state capital of Jonglei state in South Sudan, and analyses key challenges to the implementation and impact of protection initiatives on the ground. Download
This report from 2011 analyses the drivers and consequences of urbanisation, as well as assessing its implications in terms of the vulnerability of urban populations to future hazards and shocks.
The politicisation of aid has made helping others increasingly dangerous. The fortified aid compound is now ubiquitous throughout the global borderland. It has become the signature architecture, for example, of the UN integrated mission. In examining these developments, the paper first looks at the potential for UN field-security training to normalise risk-aversion and the necessity, even desirability, of defensive living. Using the example of Sudan, the wider implications of aid bunkering, including its overlaps with…
This report examines the international community’s efforts to support conflict mitigation and peacebuilding from 2005 to 1010. The evaluation throws light on the ways in which donors’ policies, funding strategies, and structures have been motivated and shaped by the challenges posed by the political and operational environment in Southern Sudan. Download
This document presents the results of research on land tenure and property rights and and provides recommendations for the land policy. Download
This paper from 2010 reviews the successes and shortcomings of the SPLA’s defence transformation process from 2006 to 2010. It takes into account decisions, events, processes, programmes, and doctrine relating to SPLA transformation and development from 2006 onward. In so doing, it identifies a transformation gap that has become evident between SPLA requirements and defence reform initiatives. Download
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