Introduction
- Author: Marisa O. Ensor
- Main Title: Displaced Youth’s Role in Sustainable Return , pp 13-20
- Publication Date: June 2013
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/a04168e1-en
- Language: English
The newly independent Republic of South Sudan entered the international stage on 9 July 2011 amid jubilant celebration, but also as one of the least developed countries in the world. Supporting the sustainable return and reintegration of vast numbers of returning refugees and IDPs is one of the most pressing challenges facing the new African country. More than 2 million displaced Southerners have returned to South Sudan since the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), an internationally mediated accord that paved the way for the secession of what is now South Sudan from the Khartoum-based Northern Government. The end of the North–South war, Africa’s longest running civil war is recent history, also made possible the return of a vast array of displaced individuals. For many among the youngest generations, the terms “return” and “reintegration” would both be misnomers, as the move to the new county for them involves settling in the land of their elders for the first time, and adopting unaccustomed lifestyles which do not often meet their expectations.
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