Tag: international engagement

This blog by Eero Wahlstedt1 is based on a desk review that assesses the degree to which donors and aid agencies have institutionalised conflict sensitivity in their policy and strategy …

Improving collaboration, coordination and learning between humanitarians and peacebuilders is an ongoing challenge. Despite their different approaches, both groups need to rise to this challenge to help achieve their shared …

International humanitarian actors and academics continue to struggle to understand armed group conduct and how to restrain this conduct when it violates moral, legal and humanitarian norms. Armed groups that …

The margins of international order remain understudied in International Relations. This article engages with the concept of multiplicity proposed by Justin Rosenberg by tracing the mechanisms of multiplicity in justifications …

People living in contexts prone to or affected by conflict suffer from many forms of deprivation. The international community plays a crucial role in strengthening the wellbeing of affected populations, …

As a powerful tool in shaping public opinion, the mainstream press has been a leading agent in influencing general attitudes towards refugees. Besides garnering sympathy for asylum seekers, news coverage …

External actors have been engaged in what is now South Sudan from the colonial era through to the present day, providing humanitarian and development assistance and exerting political pressure during …

The civil conflict in South Sudan is now entering in its fourth year. Exacerbated by a severe economic crisis, it has resulted in the worst humanitarian situation since independence. The …

This collection of articles, brought together by the Humanitarian Practice Network at the Overseas Development Institute, shares information from field workers, managers and policymakers in the humanitarian sector in South …

In this briefing, the authors argue that key assumptions underlying the Regional Protection Force mandate and current peace diplomacy do not reflect the political situation on the ground in South …

This briefing describes the findings from research carried out in several areas of South Sudan in the context of armed conflict and raiding. The findings show that despite state-building efforts, …

This briefing paper (2016) summarises shifts in international engagement in South Sudan from humanitarian aid to development and institution-building, and then back again to crisis response. This paper analyses why …

This desk research (2016) evaluates the ongoing armed conflict in terms of its humanitarian impact, human rights violations, the international response, and the future challenges (from a US perspective). Download

This report from 2016 analyses humanitarian and development water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) approaches in South Sudan, and considers how and why siloes have arisen between the two. To improve …

This comment discusses some of the recent developments in South Sudan, since its civil war reached a new stage in July 2016. It summarizes some of the causes of conflict, …