Managing Ethnic Conflicts in South Sudan: A Case Study of Jongeli Stat

This piece tries to make the conflicts in Jonglei State comprehensible to you by delving in to landmark historical events that have shaped inter-ethnic relations in Jonglei State. inter-communal violence in Jonglei has been attributed to number of factors by several authors:Tribalism, proliferation of small arms, ethnicity, cattle rustling, and marginalization among others. However, in this piece, I have attributed relevance of the above factors in inter-communal violence in Jonglei State to perennial absence of the state in the peripheries, to dominate the spaces and have monopoly over the instruments of violence.

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Kachuol Mabil Piok holds a Bsc in Political Science from the University of Juba (2010) and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Nairobi in Kenya (2014). He has been a researcher with the Sudd Institute on short contracts. He currently lectures International Relations at the CPD, UoJ.