Are Non-Poor Households Always Less Vulnerable? The Case of Households Exposed to Protracted Civil War in Southern Sudan

Civil wars in Africa are now the leading contributory cause of vulnerability of rural communities. Understanding vulnerability during civil war is critical for humanitarian response and post-conflict rehabilitation planning. The lack of understanding of vulnerability has led existing studies to make...

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Main Author:	Deng, L. B.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Family Characteristics Focus Groups Humans Poverty Sudan Vulnerable Populations War
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5076

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spelling	okr-10986-50762021-04-23T14:02:20Z Are Non-Poor Households Always Less Vulnerable? The Case of Households Exposed to Protracted Civil War in Southern Sudan Deng, L. B. Family Characteristics Focus Groups Humans Poverty Sudan Vulnerable Populations War Civil wars in Africa are now the leading contributory cause of vulnerability of rural communities. Understanding vulnerability during civil war is critical for humanitarian response and post-conflict rehabilitation planning. The lack of understanding of vulnerability has led existing studies to make sweeping generalizations, either by equating the dynamics of vulnerability during civil wars with vulnerability in other risk events, or by projecting people in the 'war zones' as unable to cope and subsequently becoming vulnerable. This paper is an attempt to gain a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of vulnerability during protracted civil war. It shows that during civil war the non-poor are not necessarily less vulnerable than poor households. The idea that people caught up in civil war are all vulnerable is not supported by the findings of this paper. It shows that the 'standard' pattern of vulnerability to drought is similar to that during exogenous counter-insurgency warfare, while a different pattern of vulnerability to endogenous shocks is identified. 2012-03-30T07:31:09Z 2012-03-30T07:31:09Z 2008 Journal Article Disasters 0361-3666 (Print) 0361-3666 (Linking) http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5076 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article South Sudan
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description	Civil wars in Africa are now the leading contributory cause of vulnerability of rural communities. Understanding vulnerability during civil war is critical for humanitarian response and post-conflict rehabilitation planning. The lack of understanding of vulnerability has led existing studies to make sweeping generalizations, either by equating the dynamics of vulnerability during civil wars with vulnerability in other risk events, or by projecting people in the 'war zones' as unable to cope and subsequently becoming vulnerable. This paper is an attempt to gain a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of vulnerability during protracted civil war. It shows that during civil war the non-poor are not necessarily less vulnerable than poor households. The idea that people caught up in civil war are all vulnerable is not supported by the findings of this paper. It shows that the 'standard' pattern of vulnerability to drought is similar to that during exogenous counter-insurgency warfare, while a different pattern of vulnerability to endogenous shocks is identified.
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title	Are Non-Poor Households Always Less Vulnerable? The Case of Households Exposed to Protracted Civil War in Southern Sudan
title_short	Are Non-Poor Households Always Less Vulnerable? The Case of Households Exposed to Protracted Civil War in Southern Sudan
title_full	Are Non-Poor Households Always Less Vulnerable? The Case of Households Exposed to Protracted Civil War in Southern Sudan
title_fullStr	Are Non-Poor Households Always Less Vulnerable? The Case of Households Exposed to Protracted Civil War in Southern Sudan
title_full_unstemmed	Are Non-Poor Households Always Less Vulnerable? The Case of Households Exposed to Protracted Civil War in Southern Sudan
title_sort	are non-poor households always less vulnerable? the case of households exposed to protracted civil war in southern sudan
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Are Non-Poor Households Always Less Vulnerable? The Case of Households Exposed to Protracted Civil War in Southern Sudan

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