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- Jok Madut Jok, Undersecretary in South Sudan’s Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports at TEDx Juba, 2012. (Photo: 2012 TEDx)
Name: Jok Madut Jok
Positions:
Career: Jok has authored many books on Sudan and South Sudan and has conducted extensive field research his country’s refugee camps.
Education: Jok received his PhD in Anthropology from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
- Friday 25 May 2012
May 24, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan provides its ten states with only 16% of the national budget, with 84% being spent by the federal government in Juba, a report by the newly-established Sudd Research Institute revealed on Thursday. A (...)
- Tuesday 31 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 30, 2012 (JUBA) - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is providing start-up funding and advisory support for the Sudd Institute, a new, independent policy research organization based in the South (...)
- Monday 19 November 2012
November 18, 2012 (JUBA) - As South Sudan prepares to host the much-hyped presidential summit, a local think tank insists the Sudanese President’s visit to Juba largely ignores the principles of Justice, as both countries will try to (...)
- Thursday 30 August 2012
By Julius N. Uma
August 29, 2012 (JUBA) - Waves of ethnic violence and rampant insecurity in its multiple forms across South Sudan still threaten the new nation’s efforts to achieve both economic and political stability, the Juba-based (...)
- Monday 16 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 15, 2012 (JUBA) - The TEDx conference, a program devoted to ideas worth spreading, involving local, self-organised events that bring people together to share experiences opened in the Republic of South Sudan on (...)
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