Leben Nelson Moro is head of the Directorate of External Relations at the University of Juba, and teaches at the University’s Center of Peace and Development Studies. His research is on displacement and resettlement, focusing on oil-induced displacement in South Sudan, and conflicts in the Sudan-South Sudan border area. His findings have appeared in the Journal of Refugee Studies, St Anthony’s International Review, Forced Migration Review, New Internationalist and Pambazuka News; he is the author of ‘Local relations of oil development in Southern Sudan’ in Luke A. Patey and Daniel Large (eds) Sudan Looks East: China, India and the Politics of Asian Alternatives (2011).