Outputs (32)

Youth Gangs and overcoming waithood in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan (2023)
Journal Article
Felix da Costa, D. (2024). Youth Gangs and overcoming waithood in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 18(1), 99-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2212993

This article investigates contestations over the roles and legitimacy of gangs within the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Bentiu, South Sudan. Drawing on qualitative interviews, it argues that ‘gan... Read More about Youth Gangs and overcoming waithood in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan.

‘What is happening now is not raiding, it's war’: The growing politicisation and militarisation of cattle-raiding among the Western Nuer and Murle during South Sudan's civil wars (2022)
Book Chapter
Felix da Costa, D., Pendle, N., & Tubiana, J. (2022). ‘What is happening now is not raiding, it's war’: The growing politicisation and militarisation of cattle-raiding among the Western Nuer and Murle during South Sudan's civil wars. In J.-N. Bach, J. Abbink, & S. Ancel (Eds.), Routledge Handook of the Horn of Africa. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426957-23

Drawing on extensive fieldwork by the three authors, this chapter discusses how contemporary political conflicts have interacted with pastoralism. It focuses on the contrasting but interrelated settings of the Western Nuer and Murle peoples of South... Read More about ‘What is happening now is not raiding, it's war’: The growing politicisation and militarisation of cattle-raiding among the Western Nuer and Murle during South Sudan's civil wars.

Changing power among Murle chiefs: negotiating political, military and spiritual authority (2018)
Report
Felix da Costa, D. (2018). Changing power among Murle chiefs: negotiating political, military and spiritual authority

Letter from Pibor (2017)
Other
Felix da Costa, D. Letter from Pibor. Nairobi

Sudan (2017)
Book Chapter
Felix da Costa, D. (2017). Sudan. In A. Voronkova (Ed.), Armed Conflict Survey 2017 (209-216). International Institute for Strategic Studies

UN support in the formation of new states: South Sudan, Kosovo and Timor-Leste (2017)
Book Chapter
Peter, M., & Felix da Costa, D. (2017). UN support in the formation of new states: South Sudan, Kosovo and Timor-Leste. In C. de Coning, C. Aoi, & J. Karlsrud (Eds.), UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era. Routledge

'If you miss food its like a weapon, its like a war': refugee relations in Nduta and Mtendeli Refugee Camps, Western Tanzania (2017)
Report
Felix da Costa, D. (2017). 'If you miss food its like a weapon, its like a war': refugee relations in Nduta and Mtendeli Refugee Camps, Western Tanzania

"You may think he is not a human being”: Refugee and host community relations in and around Nduta and Mtendeli refugee camps, western Tanzania (2017)
Report
Felix da Costa, D. (2017). "You may think he is not a human being”: Refugee and host community relations in and around Nduta and Mtendeli refugee camps, western Tanzania

Dynamics of youth and violence: findings from Rubkona county Unity state (2017)
Report
Felix da Costa, D. (2017). Dynamics of youth and violence: findings from Rubkona county Unity state

'This word, it is for Murle, not meant for other people': the politics of Murle identity, experiences of violence and of the state in Boma, south Sudan (2016)
Thesis
Felix da Costa, D. 'This word, it is for Murle, not meant for other people': the politics of Murle identity, experiences of violence and of the state in Boma, south Sudan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London