War and Peace

“There are no clear boundaries or lines of rupture between war and peace. They form a continuum, in a temporal as well as spatial or social perspective.” The statement above is one of the key findings presented in Juba by a group of researchers from Switzerland, South Sudan and Côte d’Ivoire earlier this month at an event hosted by the CSRF and the UK’s foreign aid department, DFID. According to the researchers, who studied civil…

Humanitarian workers are providing vital services for many communities in South Sudan. David Otim and Elizabeth White outline some of the challenges aid workers face and explore how humanitarian responses can contribute to peace rather than conflict. As the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly began last week, our friend Angelina Nyajima, director of South Sudanese women’s empowerment organisation Hope Restoration was in New York representing the South Sudan NGO Forum at the High-Level Humanitarian Event on South Sudan….

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