New HSBA Situation Update on the SPLA-North mobilization in South Kordofan, Sudan

South Kordofan state is characterized by significant ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity with Nuban groups and Arab tribes. The ethnicization of the prolonged war in Sudan, however, has reopened divisions between groups and weakened traditional mechanisms for peace and conflict resolution, tearing the fragile social fabric that will not be easily repaired.
 
Nuba Hopes and Fears: Fuelling SPLA-North Mobilization in South Kordofan—a new Situation Update from the Small Arms Survey’s Human Security Baseline Assessment for Sudan and South Sudan (HSBA) project—examines the clashes between the three main political stakeholders in South Kordofan, and how this fighting may see the onset of an acute humanitarian emergency.

Read: Nuba Hopes and Fears: Fuelling SPLA-North Mobilization in South Kordofan

For more, check out:

• Spilling Over: Conflict Dynamics in and around Sudan's Blue Nile State, 2015–19—a Report that assesses the evolution of the SPLM/A-N’s war with the Government of Sudan (GoS); the split within the SPLM/A-N itself; the dire humanitarian situation; as well as the failed peace talks
• The HSBA project page
• HSBA outputs in our Resource Library

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• The Small Arms Survey’s New 5-year Strategy
• New report on the political economy of armed groups in Libya
• New Blog Post: More firearms, more security, or greater gender violence in Chile?
• New Director at the Small Arms Survey: Dr. Mark Downes
• New Briefing Paper on small arms control and on women, peace, and security