Jok Madut Jok is a professor of history at Loyola Marymount University, California, and a professor of anthropology at the University of Juba, South Sudan. He is also the founding director of the Sudd Institute, a public policy research centre. His previous books include Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence, also published by Oneworld, and The Sudan Handbook.

• MapsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Introduction: The “New Sudan”: How Sudan’s Break-Up Prepared the Ground for More WarSudan after the CPASouth Sudan after the CPA 1  The Two Sudans and the Defeat of the CPA Reform ProjectSouth Sudan and the burden of independencePost-separation relationsThe cooperation agreementsThe cooperation agreements and continued military raids 2  Independent South Sudan and the Burden of Liberation HistoryThe burden of the liberation warsPolitical violence and the development of a sub-culture of gunsThe CPA and the unrelenting violenceThe CPA and the exclusionary peaceSouth Sudan and the legacy of liberation ideologies 3  Sudan’s Wars: The Experience of One Village 4  Political Rivalries, the New Wars and the Crumbling Social OrderThe 2013 outbreak of conflict: what caused this crisis?How political disagreement turned violentPower politics or tribal wars? 5  Reporting Sudan’s Wars: The Media and the Blurred Line Between Informing and IncitingWar and sexual violenceDisplacement and social life 6  Mixed Economies, Corruption and Social DisparityThe decentralized system of government and its shortfallsMixed economies, social disparities, conflict and the role of corruptionGovernance and the role of policy research 7  Ethnic Relations, the New War and the (Dis)Unity of South SudanObstacles to collective belongingPublic goods and services as the success of the stateHistory as the foundation of nationhoodThe new civil war and prospects for a united South SudanCultural exclusion could keep South Sudan in perpetual conflict 8  Conclusion: The Fates of the Two SudansLanding on hard groundAmbivalent new neighborsA history of violent interactions or a future of links?Invisible connections and the promise of peaceful co-existence NotesBibliographyIndex

‘This book is valuable as an articulation of important ideas and perspectives that are part of the South Sudanese debate. The book is also important as it places the reader in the middle of these complicated, unfolding and sometimes contradictory debates.’