Sudan
What are the challenges in the Sudan?
Although the civil war between North and South Sudan officially came to an end in 2005 when the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed, sustainable peace remains a distant prospect.
This is because of:
- the ongoing crisis in Darfur
- renewed tensions between North and South Sudan
- tensions between neighbouring tribes and militias
- vast numbers of small arms
What we do in Sudan
To address these challenges, we seek to reduce the risk of armed conflict and make communities safer in Southern Sudan.
In particular we seek to:
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help the process of developing a policy and regulatory framework for arms control
- strengthen the capacity of government and civil society partners to ensure long-term ownership and sustainability of arms control and community security initiative
Read our report which examines how integrated approaches to disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and post-conflict security programming have been applied in Sudan.
News and activities
In March, Saferworld and international and Sudanese partners organised a meeting in Juba bringing representatives of civil society from across Southern Sudan’s 10 states and the transitional areas together to discuss community security and arms control. In the first meeting of its kind, participants presented their views on the problems where they live, explored what is being done to address these problems, and produced a communiqué to the Government of Southern Sudan outlining a civil society position on community security and arms control. Several participants also established a task force to improve civil society co-ordination across Southern Sudan on security issues.
Download Saferworld's full activity report for March - April 2008
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Conflict-sensitive development
Security and justice sector development
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