Dividing lines: Grazing and conflict along the Sudan–South Sudan border

This working paper reviews the Sudan–South Sudan border primarily through the lens of the 2011–12 grazing season, the first since South Sudan’s independence. Seasonal pastoralist movements through the border region are one of the central tensions between the two states, and for border communities struggling to adapt to a newly nationalized boundary. This paper is based on fieldwork conducted in June and July 2012 in Central Equatoria, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Unity, and Upper Nile, South Sudan, supplemented by key informant interviews conducted between August and December 2012. It is also informed by the author’s previous fieldwork in South Sudan and Abyei in 2010, 2011, and 2012.

Small Arms Survey 2013

The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence and as a resource for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists.