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HSBA MAAPSS webinar series

Submitted by Lionel Kosirnik on

The Small Arms Survey’s Human Security Baseline Assessment for Sudan and South Sudan (HSBA) project hosts regular webinars for its Mapping Actors and Alliances Project in South Sudan (MAAPSS). MAAPSS is an online database that provides profiles of over 700 individual actors and armed-groups in South Sudan. For its webinar series, the project invites South Sudanese and other international experts to discuss South Sudanese political and conflict dynamics, and a wide range of issues affecting South Sudan.

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