Turning the Tide: Building a Clean Oil Sector through South Sudan’s Peace Agreement
Publisher: Global Witness
Date: 2015
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance, Peace Agreements
Countries: South Sudan
The corruption of the South Sudanese political and military elite lies at the heart of the country’s continued conflict. As the nation’s main source of prosperity, oil revenues had the potential to get the world’s newest economy moving, and to provide the development its citizens had been denied by 30 years of civil war. Instead, mismanagement and looting have stoked the acute grievances fuelling the ongoing conflict: a conflict destroying the lives of South Sudanese citizens and derailing their prospects for a better future.
This brief will set out the circumstances which have allowed corruption to flourish and to become a driver of conflict in South Sudan; establish why breaking these trends is critical to the Peace Agreement’s success and sustainability; and make recommendations as to how its resource governance provisions should be sequenced and prioritised.