Africa
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Four freedoms award
2,238 KBNomination bishop Paride Taban Roosevelt Academy
06-02-2018A long life full of war. And yet still devoting that long life to one goal: freedom and peace. each and every day. Remaining humane in inhuman conditions. Each and every day. Who in this world can manage that?
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Monitoring the Scenarios for South Sudan in 2020
256 KBPeace the only thing worth pursuing
11-12-2017The report “Monitoring the Scenarios for South Sudan in 2020: Peace the only thing worth pursuing” updates developments in South Sudan based on a 2016 analysis of five possible scenarios for the country. Written by a group of concerned citizens in South Sudan the report warns that the situation in the country is likely to become even worse unless a genuine, inclusive political process can be started immediately.
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Sustaining Relative Peace
1,396 KBPAX and the cross-border peace network’s support for human security among pastoralist communities in the borderlands of Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda
01-11-2017In June 2016, PAX and partners came together in Naivasha, Kenya, to reflect on ten years of cross-border peace work in the borderlands of South Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, one of PAX’s longest-standing peacebuilding programmes. Over the course of three days, we discussed a broad array of subjects, from the most relevant shifts in context and key moments in the development of the programme, to peacebuilding methodologies and the main successes and challenges. Immediately afterwards, we reflected upon the same issues in a two-day meeting together with authorities and security actors from the three countries in Kapoeta, South Sudan. This report is the outcome.
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Sudan Alert on civic space
579 KBPromoting civic space in Sudan: priorities for the European Union
14-06-2017This policy alert deals with the shrinking civic space in Sudan and the European Union and its member states' policies of rehabilitation of the Sudanese government in the hope that the Sudanese government may help stem migration to the EU.
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Armed and insecure
5,825 KBAn overview of arms transfers and armed violence in the Horn of Africa (2010-2015)
27-09-2016A large number of people in the Horn of Africa have grown up in the midst of armed conflict. They are never far from violence and danger. The abundance of weapons in the region and the constant influx of new arms play a large role in these conflicts. In the report 'Armed and insecure', PAX provides a unique overview of the manner in which armed conflict and the arms trade reinforce each other.
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Armed and insecure - Executive Summary
1,936 KBAn overview of arms transfers and armed violence in the Horn of Africa (2010-2015)
27-09-2016'Armed and insecure' deals with the security situation and the arms trade between 2010 and 2015 in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
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Sudan Alert
364 KBThe EU’s policy options for Sudan
06-06-2016The Dutch peace organization PAX is calling on the EU and Germany to rethink their current policies toward Sudan. Strengthening the position of the regime in an attempt to reduce refugees will likely lead to more humanitarian crises, and yet more refugees. At the same time, new aid proposed for the region undermines the international isolation of indicted war criminal President Omar al-Bashir.
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Policy brief: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Unity State, South Sudan
1,139 KBIntersections of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in South Sudan
24-03-2016This policy brief is produced in cooperation between University for Peace (UPEACE) Centre The Hague, the South Sudan Law Society (SSLS) and PAX. It examines sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Unity State, South Sudan, and offers a number of policy options to help reduce the use of SGBV as a weapon of war in South Sudan. The study contains background information on the protection of civilians (POC) site that the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) established in the state capital of Bentiu in 2014, presents survey findings on the incidence of SGBV in Unity State and the choices that households in Bentiu POC make when confronted with SGBV.
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Scenarios for South Sudan in 2020
447 KBPeace: the only thing worth fighting for
19-01-2016The scenarios described in this report are intended to give a picture of how South Sudan might look in 2020. They show that if the parties stick to the 2015 peace agreement and implement, consolidate and deepen the peace process, slowly South Sudan may be on the road towards a positive future. However, if the 2015 peace agreement does not hold and the peace process is not opened-up, the future is far less hopeful and entails horrible devastation and/or repression. This report is published in cooperation with Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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The legacy of Kokora in South Sudan
1,586 KBBriefing Paper
18-11-2015Throughout their modern history, there have been debates and political struggles about the divisions and borders of public administration in Sudan and South Sudan. This briefing paper presents the findings of a historical case study on Kokora, a word associated with the decentralization policy enacted in southern Sudan in 1983, linking it to contemporary debates on decentralization in South Sudan.