State-building South Sudan

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara de Simone
Keyword(s):  
South Sudan ◽  
State Building

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.

Doubts grow over reforms for Africa's fragile states

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
State Building ◽  
African Union ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Goals

Subject International state-building aid and interventions in Africa. Significance The five most 'fragile' states in the 2014 Fragile States Index are in Africa: South Sudan, Somalia, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan. Of these, South Sudan and Somalia in particular have been subject to major international efforts at 'state-building'. Meanwhile the DRC, Sudan and to some extent the CAR have for many years hosted high levels of humanitarian aid and large UN, African Union (AU) or sub-regional peace-keeping missions. Yet doubts are growing over the assumptions and effectiveness of international state-building aid and interventions. Impacts Countries in or emerging from long-running conflicts will remain vulnerable to fragmentation and perform worst on global development goals. Infrastructure development in the most conflict-affected countries will remain stunted, sometimes retarding regional linkage schemes. Despite generalised prescriptions for state-building, the specific context will be the decisive factor in success of any interventions.

THE STRATEGIC INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF LAND TENURE IN ‘STATE-BUILDING’: THE CASE OF JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Africa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naseem Badiey
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Political ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Local Dynamics ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
South Sudanese ◽  
The Town

ABSTRACTDebates over land tenure have been instrumental to state-building in South Sudan since the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Focusing on the local dynamics of post-conflict reconstruction in the town of Juba, this article argues that amidst the political and institutional change inaugurated by the transition from war to peace, debates over land provided a basis for the negotiation of the South Sudanese state. Actors at a variety of levels employed competing interpretations of rights to land as state-building strategies – as tools towards promoting particular visions of the state and of citizenship.

scholarly journals Land Reform and Conflict in South Sudan: Evidence from Yei River County

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hakim Justin ◽  
Han van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
State Building ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
South Sudanese ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Following South Sudanese independence in 2011, land reform became a major aspect of state building, partly to address historical injustices and partly to avoid future conflicts around land. In the process, land became a trigger for conflicts, sometimes between communities with no histories of “ethnic conflict.” Drawing on cases in two rural areas in Yei River County in South Sudan, this paper shows that contradictions in the existing legal frameworks on land are mainly to blame for those conflicts. These contradictions are influenced, in turn, by the largely top-down approach to state building, which has tended to neglect changes in society and regarding land resulting from colonialism and civil wars.

SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN IN 2015 - Naseem Badiey. The State of Post-conflict Reconstruction: Land, Urban Development and State-Building in Juba, Southern Sudan. Woodbridge, U.K.: James Currey, 2014. xv + 207 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Abbreviations. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978–1847010940. - Laura N. Beny and Sondra Hale, eds. Sudan’s Killing Fields: Political Violence and Fragmentation. Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2015. xi + 307 pp. Map. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. ISBN: 978–1569023853. - James Copnall. A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan’s Bitter and Incomplete Divorce. London: Hurst, 2014. xxii + 316 pp. Maps. Abbreviations. Index. £19.99. Paper. ISBN: 978–1849043304. - Katarzyna Grabska. Gender, Home and Identity: Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan. Woodbridge, U.K.: James Currey, 2014. xv + 223 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Abbreviations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978–1847010995. - Matthew LeRiche and Matthew Arnold. South Sudan: From Revolution to Independence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xvii + 288 pp. Maps. Index. $37.50. Cloth. ISBN: 978–1849041959. - Mark Fathi Massoud. Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxii + 277 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978–1107026070. - Edward Thomas. South Sudan: A Slow Liberation. London: Zed, 2015. xiii + 321 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978–1783604043. - Christopher Vaughan, Mareike Schomerus, and Lotje DeVries, eds. The Borderlands of South Sudan: Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiii + 237 pp. Maps. Table. Abbreviations. Index. $105.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978–1137340887.

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-234
Author(s):  
M. W. Daly
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
State Building ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Killing Fields
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