Naomi Pendle is a lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, the Centre for Development Studies, at the University of Bath. She is a prolific researcher and writer on South Sudan, researching issues of in times of conflict and famine. She has been a director of studies and teacher RVI’s Sudan and South Sudan courses, and was a researcher on the RVI South Sudan Customary Authorities Research project Wartime Trade and the Reshaping of Power in South Sudan.