Presented by
Christopher Tounsel
This chapter begins with a description of developments in South Sudan since the 2005
Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CpA). Division and enmity between
southern factions persisted during the postwar years, and independence
was not sufficient to keep some from recognizing serious challenges facing
the country. Matters came to a head in December 2013, when violence broke
out between members of the presidential guard, precipitating violence
throughout the country between forces led by Salva Kiir and Riek Machar.
Between then and 2018, tens of thousands died, more than two million fled
to neighboring countries, and nearly two million more became internally
displaced. The war debunked any notion that southerners felt a sense of pan-
Christian solidarity strong enough to subsume ethnicity or prevent ethnic
tension. And yet, the war produced a dynamic crucible of religious thought.
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