Matthew LeRiche and Matthew Arnold's account of South Sudan's path from the Second Sudanese Civil War through the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement to independence in 2011, published by C. Hurst and Co. in London and Oxford University Press in the United States in 2012. LeRiche, a scholar affiliated with the London School of Economics, and Arnold, an academic and humanitarian worker, both spent years working in South Sudan before independence. Their opening chapter frames the Second War against the earlier 1955 to 1972 First Sudanese Civil War as the deeper root of the south's long conflict with Khartoum, and states that the two wars combined killed more people than any conflict since the Second World War, citing a toll of over 500,000 to 1 million dead across the First War's own seventeen years. Its strength is direct field experience layered onto the standard historical record. Its limit is that its central subject is the Second War and the transition to independence, so its treatment of the First War specifically is a framing paragraph rather than a dedicated study.
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A named academic and a named field practitioner's book from an established academic and trade press, standard in the field for South Sudan's independence era, though its own coverage of the First Sudanese Civil War is a framing paragraph inside a book centered on the later Second War and the transition to statehood, not a dedicated demographic study of the First War's toll. NotesCited for the First Sudanese Civil War's death toll range. This is a general history of South Sudan's independence era rather than a dedicated study of the First War alone, and this atlas has not located a second, independently sourced academic figure that names a differing range for the First War specifically, as distinct from the far more heavily studied Second War.
Citation
AuthorMatthew LeRiche and Matthew Arnold
PublisherC. Hurst and Co. / Oxford University Press
Publication Year2012
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names South Sudan directly: "and Matthew Arnold's account of South Sudan's path from the Second Sudanese Civil War through the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement to independence in 2011, published by C."
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This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Wars & Conflicts, 3 claims: 2 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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