This briefing note summarizes the discussions during a workshop organized on 7 November 2014 at the Juba Civic Engagement Center in Juba, South Sudan.2 The workshop provided a platform to present a research project entitled, “Intersections of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in South Sudan”, to gauge the relevance of the proposed questions and methods, and… Read more »

This report presents the findings of a survey on perceptions of truth, justice, reconciliation and healing in South Sudan. Over a six-month period from October 2014 to April 2015, the South Sudan Law Society (SSLS), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), interviewed 1,525 individuals in 11 locations across six of the ten states of South Sudan… Read more »

Long-term unemployment is worse than poverty as it leads to social exclusion and marginalisation, especially in urban areas, where a person’s social status is linked to his/her job or career. Idle youth may be threat to themselves and to the social environment they live in as witnessed in the on-going war. Youth employment will drive… Read more »