The Sudd Institute, founded by RVI Fellow Jok Madut Jok, is a newly established research organisation that aims “to improve the quality, impact, and accountability of local, national, and international policy and decision-making in South Sudan.” The Institute’s first publication is a paper by Dr. Jok, Insecurity and Ethnic Violence in South Sudan: Existential Threats to the State? which analyses the widespread disappointment felt by South Sudanese after a year of independence and addresses the various forms of insecurity that threaten many parts of the country’.