Improving the Prospects for Peace in South Sudan

 The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published in June 2023 a major report titled "Improving the Prospects for Peace in South Sudan: Spotlight on Measurement" by Marie Riquier.

The report analyzes the dynamics of peace and conflict and how they impact the contribution of World Food Program (WFP) efforts to improve the prospects for peace in South Sudan.  The report explores how current monitoring systems, internal processes, and data can be adapted to capture WFP's contribution to improving prospects for peace.

Possible Conflict in Sudan/South Sudan Border Area

Foreign Policy posted on 6 June 2018 a commentary titled "Conflict in Abyei Could Reignite South Sudan's Civil War" by Sam Mednick.

The author concludes that if the United Nations withdraws Ethiopian peacekeepers from the long-contested and oil rich enclave of Abyei, it is likely to spark further fighting in an already unstable region.

Conflict Across the Ethiopia-South Sudan Border

The Washington-based Wilson Center published in November 2017 a policy brief titled "Mitigating Cross-Border Conflicts along the Ethiopia-South Sudan Border" and a longer study titled "Cross-Border Intergroup Conflicts in the Horn of Africa: A Case Study of Ethiopia-South Sudan Borderland People" both by Tasew Gashaw, Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar.

The author analyzes the issues facing the people who live along the porous 543-mile long border between Ethiopia and South Sudan. They face cross-border intergroup conflict that is exacerbated by South Sudan's instability, low economic inclusion in Ethiopia, and border insurgents who engage in illicit trade, child abduction, cattle rustling, and arms smuggling.

Building Peace in South Sudan

Search for Common Ground, an international organization committed to conflict transformation, published in November 2017 a report titled "Building a Constituency for Peace in South Sudan" by Katie Smith.

The report concludes that the peacebuilding strategy for South Sudan must move beyond engagement of national political elites to build a constituency for peace focused on stabilizing communities and addressing conflict drivers and triggers at the local level.

Ethiopia: Security Problem in Gambela Region

The Sudan Tribune published on 18 April 2016 an article titled "Ethiopia Launches Military Action against S. Sudan's Murle Group" by Tesfa-Alem Tekle. The Guardian published on 20 April 2016 an article titled "'Unbridled Violence' in Gambella Leaves Ethiopia Searching for Answers" by William Davison.

Both articles provide good back ground information on the unprovoked attack by Murle tribesmen from South Sudan against predominantly Nuer living in Gambela Region of Ethiopia. Ethiopia has said it is prepared to take military action against the Murle.

Oxford Journals Articles on Kenya

Oxford Journals has made available online and free of charge the following recent articles in African Affairs about Kenya as part of its Kenya Virtual Issue:

• Introduction: Kenya Virtual Issue by Rita Abrahamsen and Nic Cheeseman
• Democratization, Sequencing, and State Failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya by Daniel Branch and Nic Cheeseman
• Ethnicity, Violence, and the Immigrant-guest metaphor in Kenya by Sarah Jenkins
• Guns, Land, and Votes: Cattle Rustling and the Politics of Boundary (Re)Making in Northern Kenya by Clemens Greiner
• Rendering Differences Visible: The Kenyan State and Its Somali Citizens by Emma Lochery
• Becoming Indigenous in the Pursuit of Justice: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Endorois by Gabrielle Lynch
• Pwani C. Kenya? Memory, Documents and Secessionist Politics in Coastal Kenya bu Justin Willis and George Gona
• The Big Fish Won't Fry Themselves: Criminal Accountability for Post-Election Violence in Kenya by Stephen Brown and Chandra Lekha Sriram