Month: July 2014

• As Talks Stall, South Sudan Conflict Grinds to Stalemate

  July 22, 2014

  South Sudan

  (Originally published in World Politics Review on July 22, 2014) Seven months after fighting broke out between the government of South Sudan and anti-government forces, the conflict is at a stalemate, both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. Unlike the early days of the conflict, when cities like Bor, Bentiu and Malakal changed… Read.

• South Sudan Post-Independence: Things Fall Apart

  July 17, 2014

  South Sudan

  (Originally published in War on the Rocks on July 17, 2014) Three years into its independence, South Sudan faces multiple crises on political, security, and humanitarian fronts. After almost a decade of relative peace following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) with Sudan in 2005, a political dispute within South Sudan’s ruling party,… Read.

• Fostering Democracy, Good Governance, and Human Rights in Africa Through Security Sector Assistance

  July 17, 2014

  AFRICOM, Human Rights, Peacekeeping Operations, Security Cooperation, Terrorism, U.S. Africa Strategy

  Yesterday, I presented on a National Endowment for Democracy panel on “Fostering Democracy, Good Governance, and Human Rights in Africa Through Security Sector Assistance.” Video of the event can be found here and links to the papers we presented are below: Christopher Holshek from the Alliance for Peacebuilding presented on Mali’s Teachable Moment: The Primacy of Civil Authority in… Read.