This report analyses the workings of the justice system in Southern Sudan, focusing on the real-world relationship between local chiefs’ courts and government courts and the ways that litigants navigate between them. Based on extensive interviews with litigants, chiefs, and court officials, the report argues that that the role of the chiefs’ courts has evolved to the point where the line separating them from government courts is blurred. On balance this has extended access to justice. Copublished with the US Institute of Peace.
Effectiveness of Women in Politics and Improving Gender Equality in South Sudan
This report argues that, in order to improve women’s participation in politics and promote gender-responsive policies in the country, there is a need to enlarge