War and Genocide in South Sudan

Clémence Pinaud is Assistant Professor at Indiana University. Follow her on X @ClemencePinaud.

• From Predation to Genocide1. From the Turkiyya to the Second Civil War: 1820–19832. The SPLA and the Making of an Ethnic Dinka Army: 1983–20053. The War Economy and State-Making in SPLA Areas: 1983–20054. SPLA Violence, Group-Making, and Expansion: 1983–20055. Nationalism, Predation, and Ethnic Ranking: 2005–136. The Making of a Violent Ethnocracy: 2005–137. Civil War and the First Genocidal Phase: December 20138. The Second Phase of the Genocide in Unity State: 2014–159. The Third Phase of the Genocide in Equatoria: 2015–17Ethnic Supremacy and Genocidal Conquest

Clemence Pinaud's book, War and Genocide in South Sudan, is one of the few books on South Sudan that attaches importance to oral tradition as a means for reconstructing unwritten history. War and Genocide in South Sudan adds to the historiography on a range of topics relative to the Sudan: war, conflict, the politics of liberation, the economy, and genocide. Future scholars who wish to write about the Second and Third Civil Wars will start from where Pinaud's research stops.(H-Diplo) A deeply researched, arresting, and often brutal account of civil war in South Sudan, the violent events of which Pinaud argues constitute genocide. Based on 550 interviews across a range of locations, it is the detailed, first-person accounts of people's experiences of the war that brings the intimate experience of violence into sharp, and often brutal, relief. Required reading for the many people who care about South Sudan and its future.(Global Responsibility to Protect) Pinaud's approach is clear-eyed and systematic. She walks a careful line, avoiding oversimplifications that would characterize the war as an 'ethnic' conflict while demonstrating the central role that instrumentalized ethnicity played in fomenting and prosecuting events and is nuanced in her analysis of the various factions. Pinaud's book will be essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the roots of the present South Sudanese conflict; it also makes a significant contribution to sociological understanding of the political formation of mass atrocity.(International Affairs)