The articles in this book, collectively, address certain aspects of the processes of the first half of the second civil war (1983 – 1992) from economic, historical, political and sociological viewpoints. While the civil war in the South occupies a large space, the focus is more on the processes that are common to the country as a whole. Download
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This is a discussion paper concerned with some of the acute dilemmas increasingly confronted by international relief agencies concerned with “political emergencies” – often called “complex emergencies” – in Africa… This paper argues that relief organizations largely developed their current mandates during the Cold War era. These restricted mandates are less relevant to many current disasters in Africa. In expanding their mandates, however, relief agencies run a danger whereby different components of their enlarged mandates…
Africa Watch conducted field research in south Sudan in June and July 1993 to gather information about rules of war violations in the conflict. The following is a preliminary report of findings and recommendations to the United Nations, the United States, the international community and all sides to the conflict for ending abuses.
In March 1989, the international community launched a major relief effort to help civilians suffering needlessly from food deprivation in the Sudan’s bloody civil war. It was an uphill battle from the start: against the rains, against political sabotage, against recurrent ward and famine. Operation Lifeline Sudan was a massive international relief effort which helped stave off disaster. Its success was due in large part to the agreement of the warring parties, the determination of…
Most of the people who start to work for relief agencies in Africa have not bad previous experience of knowingly contributing to the suffering and death of a large number of people. Relief agencies do not tend to attract people who have this sort of experience, and they do not include it in their job descriptions when recruiting. Yet the disturbing activity of voluntarily being unpleasant to strangers is one of the most frequent activities…
This article is an attempt to examine a number of interrelated factors which can be cited to account for the relative failure of evangelical Christianity in three pastoral, Nilotic-speaking communities of the southern Sudan, the Dinka, Nuer, and Atuot. The social context of missions was largely created by the British colonial presence, so that it is best to understand missionary efforts in thaflight. At the same time, it can be argued, the colonial administration fostered…
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