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Author Archives: Elizabeth Laruni and Michelle McKenna

Elizabeth Laruni was a senior fellow and Deputy Leader of the Human Rights and Conflict Resolution research division. Michelle McKenna is sa junior fellow in the international law division. Her research interests include military interventions in the Middle East and Africa.

Conflict in South Sudan: Civil War as a Political Weapon

Elizabeth Laruni and Michelle McKenna February 26, 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa

For a country that had long been plagued with conflict, independence from Sudan in July 2011 appeared to be a positive step forward for the peoples of South Sudan. However, merely two and a half years later, the country has been plunged into conflict once again, spelling disaster for the future of this young nation.