State Building in the Republic of South Sudan: Challenges and Aspirations

2017 ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Faiz Omar Mohammad Jamie
Keyword(s):  
South Sudan ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Republic

scholarly journals The humanitarian protectorate of South Sudan? Understanding insecurity for humanitarians in a political economy of aid

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-370
Author(s):  
Bram J. Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
State Building ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The Everyday

ABSTRACTThis paper aims to contribute to debates about humanitarian governance and insecurity in post-conflict situations. It takes the case of South Sudan to explore the relations between humanitarian agencies, the international community, and local authorities, and the ways international and local forms of power become interrelated and contested, and to what effect. The paper is based on eight months of ethnographic research in various locations in South Sudan between 2011 and 2013, in which experiences with and approaches to insecurity among humanitarian aid actors were studied. The research found that many security threats can be understood in relation to the everyday practices of negotiating and maintaining humanitarian access. Perceiving this insecurity as violation or abuse of a moral and practical humanitarianism neglects how humanitarian aid in practice was embedded in broader state building processes. This paper posits instead that much insecurity for humanitarian actors is a symptom of the blurring of international and local forms of power, and this mediates the development of a humanitarian protectorate.

Sudan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Schneider ◽  
Vanessa Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Republic

Sudan is situated in north-eastern Africa bordered by the Red Sea, Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central Africa Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. It has an area of 1,886 million square kilometres (km) and an estimated 2019 population of 42.81 million. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011, and as such the provisions only relate to Sudan (North), which is now formally known as the Republic of Sudan. The capital of Sudan is Khartoum. The working week in Sudan is from Saturday to Wednesday with business hours beginning at 0800 and ending at 1630, Thursday’s hours are from 0800 to 1300, whilst Friday is day off. The currency in Sudan is the Sudanese pound (SDG/Ls).

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