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In 2005, Southern Sudan emerged from a brutal 22 year civil war. But despite a cessation of state-level armed conflict, the semi-autonomous territory remains poor and fraught with numerous conflicts to which inter-tribal differences, militias, corruption, state weakness and the widespread availability of small arms and light weapons (SALW) all contribute. Sudanese civil society, North and South, played an important role in maintaining basic human security during the conflict period, with a range of organisations campaigning for peace or distributing aid to a needy population.