South Sudan Constitutional confusion around revenue roles is a recipe for conflict South Sudan, the world’s newest state, is also one of its most fragile. Repeated international attempts to end the country’s civil war, which broke out in December 2013, have failed with predictable regularity. Meanwhile, ongoing violence has forced nearly 2m people to flee their homes, according to March 2015 estimates from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Against this backdrop—of seemingly never-ending violence and political posturing—unresolved questions about intra-governmental relationships and constitutional fine print are easily ignored. Yet these questions will need to be addressed if a peaceful South Sudanese…
