> Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility > CSRF Research Update No. 3/2017 > > Dear Reader, > This CSRF Research Update highlights recent, useful publications for donors and practitioners pursuing conflict sensitive engagement in South Sudan. These publications can also be found on the CSRF Research Repository hosted by the South Sudan Peace Portal. Sign up to join the CSRF mailing list to receive future Research Updates and notifications about public events and trainings on issues related to conflict sensitivity. > > > > CSRF Picks > > > > The Murle and the security complex in the South Sudan-Ethiopia borderlands > This paper explores cross-border attacks from South Sudan into Gambella in April 2016,l countering reductionist narratives of the potential role of Murle leaders and community within the current South Sudanese political arena. Read more > > > > > Fettered determination: South Sudan’s narrowed path to secession > In this journal article, the authors argue that self-determination is a complex democratic processes but was, in the case of the 2011 referendum in South Sudan, reduced by political actors—with international support—to narrow technical matters. This was done at the expense of a more inclusive, process-oriented and political interpretation of self-determination. Read more > > > > China’s foreign policy experiment in South Sudan > This ICG report analyses China’s foreign policy and its evolving approach to the principle of non-interference in other states’ internal affairs. Using the example of South Sudan, the report suggests that China is experimenting with a wider range of foreign policy tools and objectives, in line with its expanding overseas interests. Read more > > > > South Sudan - Western Trade Corridor in Hyperinflation Times: Rapid Market Assessment in Northern Bahr El Ghazal and Warrap > This report studies trade and markets in Bahr el-Ghazal to evaluate the impact of hyperinflation on South Sudan’s western trade corridor and the implications for alternative ways of providing food security support through cash or vouchers. Read more > > > > Browse CSRF repository > > > > Go in depth > > Relief and an Understanding of Local Knowledge: The Case of Southern Sudan from Simon Harragin > > This book chapter casts an anthropological eye over the issues of local knowledge, famine relief, and development theory, using the case of southern Sudan during the second civil war to reveal structural weaknesses in the ways local people are seen and represented in conventional development discourse. Read more > > > > The Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility (CSRF) provides research and analysis that supports joint understanding of the operational context in South Sudan as a basis for conflict-sensitive programming, decision-making and strategizing. The CSRF is funded by the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Canada, and implemented by Saferworld, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects and swisspeace. > > >
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