| Description |
1 online resource (iii, 34 pages) : color maps |
| Series |
Africa report ; no. 154 |
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ICG Africa report ; no. 154.
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| Contents |
Executive summary and recommendations -- Introduction -- The primary conflict cycles -- Exacerbating factors -- Responding to the excalating violence -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Conflicts among tribes have claimed several thousand lives in South Sudan in 2009, with the worst violence in and around the vast, often impassable state of Jonglei. Violence often afflicts pastoral communities, but in this area it has taken on a new and dangerously politicised character. With the death toll over the past year exceeding that in Darfur and displacement affecting more than 350,000 people, the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) should recognise the primarily local nature of the conflicts, extend state authority and prove itself a credible provider of security lest the problems become major obstacles on the road to self-determination and beyond. International partners must simultaneously step up their support or risk seeing the South become increasing unstable ahead of national elections and the self-determination referendum. This report examines a series of conflict triggers that shed light on the spike in deadly violence in 2009. It highlights three of the primary conflict cycles in Jonglei and adjoining areas across the border in Upper Nile over the past year: those involving the Dinka, Lou Nuer, Jikany Nuer, and Murle communities. In doing so, it looks at factors both causing and exacerbating the violence, as well as the politicisation of conflict, the possibility of instigation from the North and new conflict dynamics. Using Jonglei as an example, it also examines deficits in the security sector at both the state and national level |
| Notes |
"Title from cover screen (viewed December 29, 2009) |
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23 December 2009." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Internal security -- Sudan
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Ethnic conflict -- South Sudan -- Jonglei State
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Cattle stealing -- South Sudan -- Jonglei State
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Cattle stealing.
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Ethnic conflict.
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Internal security.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Sudan -- Politics and government -- 1985- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000814
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| Subject |
South Sudan -- Jonglei State.
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Sudan.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Crisis Group.
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