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Assessing the 2017 Somaliland Presidential Election
Horn of Africa  |  Research Papers
Assessing the 2017 Somaliland Presidential Election
by Adan Abokor, Naisr M. Ali | 2019  |  Assessing the 2017 Somaliland Presidential Election by Dr Adan Yusuf Abokor and Nasir M. Ali (2018).pdf
In May 2001, Somaliland’s citizens went to the polls to approve an interim constitution in a public referendum coordinated by the Government of Somaliland. The constitution called for... MORE >
Speaking Truth To Power
Sudan & South Sudan  |  Research Reports
Speaking Truth To Power in South Sudan: Oral histories of the Nuer prophets
by Jedeit J. Riek, Naomi Pendle | 2019  |  Speaking Truth to Power by Jedeit J. Riek and Naomi R. Pendle - RVI SSCA Project (2019).pdf
Speaking Truth to Power focuses on the life of Kolang Ket—a major prophet in the early twentieth century. His story, as recounted in the Bentiu POCS, includes his seizure by the... MORE >
Customary Authorities Displaced
Sudan & South Sudan  |  Research Reports
Customary Authorities Displaced: The experience of Western Equatorians in Ugandan refugee settlements
by Bruno Braak, John Justin Kenyi | 2018  |  Customary Authorities Displaced by Bruno Braak and John Justin Kenyi - RVI SSCA Project (2018).pdf
Customary Authorities Displaced examines the consequences of conflict and displacement on traditional forms of authority among refugees from former Western Equatoria state. Various... MORE >
The Challenge of Reform within Ethiopia’s Constitutional Order
Horn of Africa  |  Briefings
The Challenge of Reform within Ethiopia’s Constitutional Order
by Christophe Van der Beken | 2018  |  The Challenge of Reform within Ethiopia's Constitutional Order by Christophe Van der Beken - RVI Briefing Paper (2018).pdf
For over two decades Ethiopia’s political federation has been organized around the principle of ‘democratic centralism’. This philosophy also lies at the heart of the... MORE >
After the Khartoum Agreement
Sudan & South Sudan  |  Briefings
After the Khartoum Agreement: Boundary Making and the 32 States in South Sudan
by Douglas H. Johnson, Aly Verjee, Matthew Pritchard | 2018  |  After the Khartoum Agreement by Douglas Johnson, Aly Verjee and Matthew Pritchard - RVI Briefing (2018).pdf
The Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) signed on 12 September 2018, not only allows for a new government and security arrangements, it also... MORE >
Peace is the Name of Our Cattle-Camp
Sudan & South Sudan  |  Research Reports
Peace is the Name of Our Cattle-Camp: Local responses to conflict in Eastern Lakes State, South Sudan
by John Ryle, Machot Amuom | 2018  |  Peace is the Name of Our Cattle-Camp by John Ryle and Machot Amuom - RVI SSCA Project (2018).pdf
Following the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and the subsequent independence of South Sudan in 2011, many agro-pastoralist and pastoralist areas of the country have experienced an... MORE >
Wartime Trade and the Reshaping of Power in South Sudan
Sudan & South Sudan  |  Research Reports
Wartime Trade and the Reshaping of Power in South Sudan: Learning from the Market of Mayen Rual
by Naomi Pendle, Chirrilo Madut Anei | 2018  |  Wartime Trade and the Reshaping of Power in South Sudan by Naomi Pendle - RVI SSCA Project (2018).pdf
During war, geographies of economic and political power are often recast by shifting patterns of trade and population movements. This can present an opportunity for local leaders to reshape... MORE >
Remittances and Vulnerability in Somalia
Horn of Africa  |  Briefings
Remittances and Vulnerability in Somalia
by Nisar Majid | 2018  |  Remittances and Vulnerability in Somalia by Nisar Majid - RVI Briefing (2018).pdf
The importance of remittances to the household economy across Somalia is well-recognized. What is less well understood is the relationship between remittances and the relative vulnerability... MORE >
Changing Power Among Murle Chiefs
Sudan & South Sudan  |  Research Reports
Changing Power Among Murle Chiefs: Negotiating political, military and spiritual authority in Boma State, South Sudan
by Diana Felix da Costa | 2018  |  Changing power among Murle chiefs by Diana Felix da Costa - RVI SSCA Project (2018).pdf
Changing Power Among Murle Chiefs investigates how Murle customary authorities—in particular, red chiefs—navigate and negotiate political, military and spiritual authority... MORE >
Politics, Power and Chiefship in Famine and War
Sudan & South Sudan  |  Research Reports
Politics, Power and Chiefship in Famine and War: A study of the former Northern Bahr el-Ghazal state, South Sudan
by Nicki Kindersley | 2018  |  Politics, Power and Chiefship in Famine and War by Nicki Kindersley - RVI SSCA Project (2018).pdf
Politics, power and chiefship in famine and war investigates how customary authorities on South Sudan’s border with southern Darfur have managed repeated wars and famines since the... MORE >
Mobility and crisis in Gulu
Great Lakes  |  Research Reports
Mobility and crisis in Gulu : Drivers, dynamics and challenges of rural to urban mobility
by Ronald Kalyango | 2018  |  Mobility and crisis in Gulu by Ronald Kalyango - RVI (2018).pdf
Historically, Gulu is a place of mixed opportunities. In the 1980s and 1990s, Gulu hosted many internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) conflict in... MORE >
Eldoret, a city on the move
East Africa  |  Research Reports
Eldoret, a city on the move : Drivers, dynamics and challenges of rural to urban mobility
by Miriam Badoux | 2018  |  Eldoret, a city on the move by Miriam Badoux - RVI (2018).pdf
This study looks at rural–urban mobility in Eldoret, a fast-growing secondary city of about 300,000 people located in Kenya’s Rift Valley. The city is perceived as a dynamic... MORE >

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