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The Asylum-Migration Nexus: Can Motivations Shape The Concept Of Coercion? The Sudanese Transit Case
This piece discusses forced migration from a multidisciplinary approach.
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Sensing Sleeping Sickness: Local Symptom-Making in South Sudan
Programs for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as sleeping sickness increasingly involve patients and community workers in syndromic case detection with little exploration of patient understandings of symptoms. Drawing on concepts from sensorial anthropology, I investigate peoples’ experiences of sleeping…
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Rethinking access to land and violence in post-war cities: reflections from Juba, Southern Sudan
It is often assumed that violence diminishes after civil war. In fact, urban areas can turn highly violent. The new forms of violence that can emerge are widespread but poorly understood and have been attributed to a range of factors…
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Protection and well-being of adolescent refugees in the context of a humanitarian crisis: Perceptions from South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
Improved understanding of refugees’ perceptions of provision of humanitarian support is important to improve design and delivery of humanitarian assistance. Refugee adolescents face a range of adversities, while the phase of displacement likely influences risk factors for adolescent refugees. However,…
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Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods
This paper explores how creative and participatory practices can address the barriers, such as illiteracy (including computer illiteracy) and lack of training, often cited as limiting researchers’ ability to share power with affected communities, and allow for greater co-production of…
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Sexual Violence Against Men in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings: A Qualitative Research Methodology
This article describes the research design and the strategies employed by the first author, who conducted qualitative research with South Sudanese male refugees who were survivors of sexual violence and have resettled in two communities in Uganda since the onset…
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The Cultural Problematic in Narratives of Violence against Women and Girls in South Sudan
Our research points to the need for social and gender norm change approaches to be better contextualised within the political economy and through applying a nuanced critique of the role of culture in normalising many forms of VAWG. In addition,…
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Conflict, trade and the medium-term future of food security in Sudan
Recent economic growth and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) have been seen as grounds for optimism about future food security in Sudan. However, solving the North-South conflict (if indeed it is solved) does not resolve conflicts within either the North…
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A Disaster for Whom?: Local Interests and International Donors During Famine Among the Dinka of Sudan
The 1985–88 famine amongst the Dinka is described and shown to have been rooted in the long term exploitation of the south by northern Sudanese and international interests. This process of exploitation served, and continues to serve, important functions for…
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Dispersal, division and diversification: durable solutions and Sudanese refugees in Uganda
Questions over durable solutions in the social, political and security terrain of southern Sudan and northern Uganda invite recognition that simple delineations between “home” and “exile” are inadequate to understanding displacement and refugee status. Contrary to existing policies assuming an…
Briefing
One year after the coup: What Next for Sudan’s Juba Peace Agreement?
This briefing considers the changing political situation in Sudan with a particular focus on the future of the Juba Peace Agreement (JPA). It explores how the relationship between two key factions in the conflict has complicated the ongoing discussions around…
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Sudan: International Dimensions to the State and its Crisis
This paper locates the internationalisation of Sudanese governance in a historical context, briefly noting how the country had an unusual and complex experience of imperial rule, and mentions some of the implications of this for post-independence politics. It also looks…
