Chathamhouse.org: South Sudan's Slide into Conflict: Revisiting the Past and Reassessing Partnerships

From: Berhane Habtemariam <Berhane.Habtemariam_at_gmx.de_at_dehai.org>
Date: Fri Dec 5 17:27:21 2014

South Sudan's Slide into Conflict: Revisiting the Past and Reassessing
Partnerships


Project:
<http://www.chathamhouse.org/departments-and-programmesprojects/africa-progr
amme> Africa Programme,
<http://www.chathamhouse.org/departments-and-programmesprojects/horn-africa-
project> Horn of Africa Project

 <http://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/directory/70728> Jeremy Astill-Brown

Associate Fellow, Africa Programme

05 December 2014

* South Sudan's return to violence in December 2013 poses questions
about the quality of partnership between donors and fragile and
conflict-affected states more broadly. The quality of the Comprehensive
Peace Agreement (CPA) and the thinness of donor appetite for risk combined
to highlight the fatal flaws in the nascent South Sudan's foundations.
* The conflict caught donors and many long-term observers of South
Sudan unawares, and has led to a suspension of much development programming,
in favour of humanitarian assistance to alleviate the effects of the
violence.
* There is an urgent need to return to development activity based on a
new political partnership between the international community and South
Sudan, one that seeks to address - rather than work around - the real
obstacles to the realization of a peaceful, stable and democratic South
Sudan.
* In the future, donors will need to be much better at integrating
their development and political activity; be able to manage a higher degree
of political risk; avoid the temptation to work only on the 'demand side';
and learn how to work with the political/security as well as the technical
dimensions of the current context.

 
<http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/field/field_document/2
0141203SouthSudanConflictAstillBrown.pdf>

 
<http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/field/field_document/2
0141203SouthSudanConflictAstillBrown.pdf> Research Paper: South Sudan's
Slide into Conflict: Revisiting the Past and Reassessing Partnerships

 
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