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Journal Article
Divisive ‘Commonality’: state and insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Northern donor policies relating to building a common future and building peaceful states and societies go to the heart of national and international security agendas. This article critiques the concept of commonality between donors and recipients and within recipient countries.…
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…
Journal Article
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…
Journal Article
Sudan’s elusive democratisation: civic mobilisation, provincial rebellion and chameleon dictatorships
Sudan experienced two inspirational popular uprisings that brought down military dictatorships, but the ‘Arab Spring’ passed it by. This paper analyses social movements and armed resistance within the dualistic structure of Sudan’s centre and periphery. A pattern of alternating military…
Journal Article
Introduction: Making Sense of South Sudan
This introductory essay to a selection of African Affairs articles on South Sudan documents the critical contributions of empirically rich and analytically rigorous research, highly relevant to understanding South Sudan’s crisis, led by South Sudanese scholars. This contrasts with journalism…
Essay
South Sudan: The price of war, the price of peace – a graphic story
In December 2013, South Sudan erupted into civil war as President Salva Kiir’s army battled rebel forces led by former Vice-President Riek Machar. Tens of thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. This cartoon tells the story of the…
Journal Article
Peace and the security sector in Sudan, 2002–11
This paper examines how contests over military control were played out during peace negotiations and in the implementation of agreements (including the manipulation or violation of the terms of agreements) in Sudan between 2002 and 2011. The cases examined are…
Book Chapter
Comparing Peace Processes: Sudan
Signed in January 2005 following more than 20 years of civil war, Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was hailed as that country’s ‘second independence’ and the last, best chance for a united, democratic, and peaceful Sudan. A few years later,…
Thesis
Lugbara “Religion” Revisited: A Study of Social Repair in West Nile, North-West Uganda
This thesis explores processes of transitional justice as post-war social repair. It interrogates the multifarious quests through which Lugbara people of north-west Uganda seek to rebuild their intimate relationships and social lives, with recourse to explanations and therapies for suffering…
Journal Article
Geographies of Unease: Witchcraft, Mobility and Insecurity in an African Borderland
This thesis explores processes of transitional justice as post-war social repair. It interrogates the multifarious quests through which Lugbara people of north-west Uganda seek to rebuild their intimate relationships and social lives, with recourse to explanations and therapies for suffering…
Background Reports
‘Drought as War’ in Northern Uganda: Exploring the Complex Relationship Between Climate Change, Scarcity, and Conflict
That climate change will increase the incidence of violent conflict is a common claim made by both policymakers and climate change activists. I aim to question and critique the simplistic assertion that climate change will cause increased violent conflict, showing…
Book Chapter
From violent conflict to slow violence: climate change and post-conflict recovery in Karamoja, Uganda
In literature examining climate change as a potential factor in violent conflict, violence is generally conceived as a readily-apparent, time-bound event. Conversely, the ontologies of slow violence emphasize the insidious ways in which environmental change can, itself, impart violence. This…
