The US Institute of Peace published in April 2021 a study titled "Conflict and Crisis in South Sudan's Equatoria" by Alan Boswell, International Crisis Group.
The report examines the conflict in Equatoria region of South Sudan. It concludes the crisis in Equatoria will likely become entrenched if peace talks do not gain momentum and as resentments from abusive counterinsurgency campaigns mount and disillusionment with the troubled peace process grows.