Legitimacy, Exclusion, and Power: Taban Deng Gai and the South Sudan Peace Process (HSBA Issue Brief 25)

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Legitimacy, Exclusion, and Power: Taban Deng Gai and the South Sudan Peace Process analyses Taban Deng’s history and his current place in South Sudan. In doing so, it draws on a new HSBA Working Paper on Unity state—A State of Disunity: Conflict Dynamics in Unity State, South Sudan, 2013–158 —which is being released together with this Brief. The Working Paper analyses the continuities between Sudan’s long second civil war (1983– 2005) and the current conflict, as well as social and military dynamics that have emerged since December 2013. This Brief places some of the key findings of the Working Paper in the context of current political dynamics in the country. With Taban Deng as FVP, and ongoing clashes in Unity, the beleaguered state is central to understanding the challenges facing South Sudan today.

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