This study investigates the connection between borders, society and environment in the borderlands between Sudan and South Sudan and attempts to expand our understanding of the process of border-making and its effects on the local population and on the spatial dynamics.
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Indigenous African communities have knowledge and leadership systems as rich and complex as the continent’s history. However, the literature is often polemical, generalizes Africa, or lacks specificity in particular contexts. Indigenous African systems were sophisticated and pre…
This dissertation delineates a political economy of refugee return migration to South Sudan by examining refugees' shifting practices of production, social reproduction and exchange, their spatialization and their intersection with various axes of difference. My work builds on t…
This dissertation scrutinizes a pressing policy problem: Financial development interventions for southern Sudanese repatriates by non-state entities. It explores the complicated landscape in which microfinance, an intervention that aims to foster economic development, works towa…
To date, the arrest warrants issued by the ICC against the Sudanese President, as a suspect of heinous international crimes committed in Darfur, have not been enforced. This thesis questions and analyzes the reasons behind this failure. The thesis also considers the question whe…
South Sudan attained self-governing status in 2010, following a Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 that ended decades of war. The need to understand the values and motivations that gird the current legislators of South Sudan referred to by the UN as the newest nation i…
Prevailing research pegs health status to a multitude of explanations, with many countries sharing almost similar experiences, depending on their development trajectory. There is consensus that fragility begets substandard health outcomes. This suggests that settings that are em…
This study explores the extent and depth of moral obligations in international relations, and how our collective understanding of these obligations has changed in the post-Cold War era. The genocides in Rwanda (1994) and Srebrenica (1995) raised questions about the moral legitim…
Understanding the geographic distribution of insurgency violence is critical for assessing where counter-insurgency and civilian protections operations are effective. It allows researchers and policymakers to detect trends in violence and propose local programs designed to quell…
Despite the vast amount of research on self-determination, there are pertinent questions that remain unanswered. Of the questions surrounding self-determination, the most intriguing and perhaps important, is what determines the status of a peoples vying for self-determination. A…
For my thesis, I explore how South Sudanese refugees in central Iowa imagine a utopic South Sudan amidst contemporary inter-ethnic tensions emanating from their recently independent country. In central Iowa and in particular Des Moines, South Sudanese refugees subtly reproduce t…
Access to clean water is essential for the health of all populations, yet some developing nations still lack sufficient supply. Inadequate supply of clean water results in consumption of contaminated sources, which in turn can cause or exacerbate existing disease. Old Fangak, So…
The first missionaries arrived in southern Sudan around the middle of the nineteenth century, bringing with them a Western model of church. That same model of church is evident all across southern Sudan today. While contextualization has occurred in parts, there is no fully cont…
This study examines differences between international organization (IO) headquarters and field employee perceptions of the program they are involved in Southern Sudan and the Three Areas (SS3A). Though headquarters and field employees both aim for a successful program, they perc…
This thesis examines the impact of refugee camp education and repatriation policy on a rural Dinka community in South Sudan and what implications can be drawn from this impact to inform the larger national and international projects of education in emergencies and conflict-affec…
Poverty, poor economic conditions, and civil war are interconnected and cyclical - poverty and poor economic conditions facilitate the outbreak of civil war, which devastates the economy, which makes further violence more likely, and so on. The relationship between poverty, poor…
The study of indigenous leadership practices is critical to the development of intercultural cooperation and development. Research indicated that improved relationships between organizations and indigenous people can be effective in developing collaborative efforts and mutual un…
This dissertation investigates economic development and ethnopolitical conflict in Sudan and South Sudan and focuses on the period from the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the North and South to emergence of South Sudan as a sovereign nation in 2011. Can Bremmer's (20…
This work uses definitions of the state and state theory put forth through the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the 1933 Montevideo Convention and the 1963 Organization of African Union Charter to analyze and compare the statehood claims made by South Sudan and Somaliland, respectivel…