This is the introduction piece to the collection of publications on “Education, Conflict and Civicness in South Sudan”, which is the outcome of a collaboration between the South Sudan Studies Association (SSSA) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
The collection of essays is interested in exploring the political significance of unequal access to education, considering gender, ethnicity, and locality; forms of political violence, patronage, and intimidation in the education system; and the ways in which teachers, lecturers, and students have individually or collectively responded to the predicaments of war and humanitarian crises in efforts to create and facilitate access to civic spaces.