Land and reparative justice in South Sudan

Should land grabbing be viewed as a human rights violation worthy of reparations?

The links between land, reparations and transitional justice are unclear in many post-conflict countries, including South Sudan. The 2013 African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan highlighted land grabbing as a sign of accumulated grievances and called for land reform in transitional justice processes. However, South Sudan’s 2018 peace agreement doesn’t include land-related conflict in the transitional justice framework.

This seminar discusses a new report by the Institute for Security Studies that investigated citizens’ perceptions about land and reparative justice in South Sudan.

Chair: Allan Ngari, Senior Researcher, ISS Pretoria

Speakers:

Jame David Kolok, Consultant and Executive Director, FODAG South Sudan

Maram Mahdi, Research Officer, ISS Pretoria

Peter Kepa Dima, Research Consultant

Development partners
This seminar is funded by the Government of the Netherlands. The ISS is also grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the European Union, the Open Society Foundations and the governments of Canada, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the USA.
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