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SEMINAR : ‘South Sudan’s Revitalised Peace Agreement: Past, Present and Future Challenges to Peace’, 27 September 2018, 10:20-13:00.

The Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation and Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria and the Institute of African Renaissance Studies, UNISA invite you to a seminar entitled;

SOUTH SUDAN’S REVITALISED PEACE AGREEMENT:

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES TO PEACE 

Five years since the outbreak of the current conflict, the ruling Sudanese People Liberation Movement- in Government (SPLM-IG), and the SPLM-in-Opposition (IO) have yet again entered into an agreement. This seminar aims to provide an understanding of why crucial peace negotiations and efforts have been failing in South Sudan. Through a review of prior events, the many peace negotiations and deep-seated issues, the seminar will map out the complex journey that this country has travelled.

Presented by:

Prof. Martin Rupiya (IARS-UNISA): Styles on Mediation and Foreign Policy convergence in South Sudan, Uganda and Sudan

Dr. Nelson Alusala (GovInn-UP): Peace Agreements Image removed by sender. page1image1815488Process of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform interventions in South Sudan

Ms. Emmaculate Asige Liaga (Dep of PolSci-UP): Characteristics of societal- traditional peace and conflict Bottom-Up peace and peacebuilding strategies to meet the dynamic context of South Sudan

Date: 27th September 2018

Time: 10:30-13:00

Venue: Old College House, University of Pretoria

RSVP https://goo.gl/forms/ v1bvjSFvlkucZdQ33 by 26 September

Kindly address any queries to Ms. Emmaculate Liaga emmaliaga@yahoo.com or Mr. Alfred Matjila matjila@unisa.ac.za

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‘South Sudan humanitarian crisis’, by Emma Asige at SABC

GovInn’s former emerging researcher Emma Asige talked to SABC’s Morning Live about the South Sudanese Humanitarian crisis.

A recent United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan report has found that serious human rights and international humanitarian law violations have been committed in the country. The violations include targeting civilian populations and individual civilians on the basis of their ethnic identity and perceived political affiliations by means of killings, abductions, rape and sexual violence, as well as the destruction of villages. The ongoing humanitarian crisis has resulted in massive displacement of the civilian population of South Sudan.

Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZYNW8gzhxo&feature=youtu.be

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