609 research outputs found
Working in Challenging Environments: Risk Management and Aid Culture in South Sudan – field report
The ethics of researching in conflict: personal reflections from Greater Pibor and South Sudan
‘We are one, but we are different’: Murle identity and local peacebuilding in Jonglei, South Sudan
Book review: dealing with government in South Sudan (2015) by Cherri Leonardi
Diana Felix da Costa argues that this book offers valuable insights into processes of state formation and state-society relations across South Sudan as well as in East Africa
The ethics of researching in conflict: personal reflections from Greater Pibor and South Sudan
'This word, it is for Murle, not meant for other people': the politics of Murle identity, experiences of violence and of the state in Boma, south Sudan
Moving towards local level peacebuilding? Contextualizing early peacebuilding activities to local circumstances: South Sudan case-study field report
Casting the net too deep and too wide? UN local peacebuilding-peacekeeping nexus in South Sudan
Offering the diagnosis, but lacking the medicine: UN local peacebuilding-peacekeeping nexus in Haiti
UNMISS County Support Bases: Peacekeeping–Peacebuilding Nexus at Work?
The initiative by the United Nations Mission in South
Sudan (UNMISS) to establish County Support Bases
(CSBs) in 35 counties, in addition to the presence it
already has in 10 state capitals, reflects a new interest
in UN peacekeeping operations in pursuing a
greater nexus between peacekeeping and peacebuilding,
especially at the local level. In principle,
the CSBs are a positive development, representing
a move towards focusing on areas where the need
is greatest – but they have also given rise to several
concerns. Internally, UNMISS has had to reassess
how fast it can move and what it can achieve with
the CSBs. The CSBs are intended to ‘facilitate the
extension of state authority’, and serve as a vehicle
for integration with the UN Country Team (UNCT),
who are the ones who can actually bring tangible
development and peace dividends to isolated rural
areas. Externally, the CSBs are expected to have an
enabling effect on the extension of state authority
through co-location of UNMISS staff with government
counterparts in the counties. Given the delays
encountered in CSB construction, it is not yet possible
to fully assess their impact, although partial presence
and air movement has already facilitated what
is often the only link between state authorities and
rural communities. This policy brief focuses on exploring
the conceptual thinking and vision behind
the CSBs, the efforts to achieve greater integration
between UNMISS and UNCT, the challenges UNMISS
has been facing in developing the CSBs, and how
the UN plans to use CSBs in the future
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