The Council on Foreign Relations published on 28 November 2016 a report titled "Ending South Sudan's Civil War" by Katherine Almquist Knopf, director, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University.
The author argues that the only remaining path to protect South Sudan's sovereignty and territorial integrity, restore its legitimacy, and politically empower its citizens is through an international transitional administration, established by the United Nations and the African Union, to run the country for a finite period.