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*Political Corruption & Organised Crime*

Monday 28 June, 2021
(Washington DC; London; Pretoria)

Read this #preprint on @researchsquare: Violent Crime & Extremism in #SouthSudan: The Modus Operandi of Organised Criminal Groups & Political Corruption researchsquare.com/article/rs-520…

https://twitter.com/rs_preprints/status/1405583531691098114

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As South Sudan approaches the ten-year anniversary of its independence from Sudan on 9 July, 2021, today we share an important preliminary briefing of a novel & groundbreaking seven-year forensic investigation into state-supported criminal activity &…

…its financing of terrorism.

This introductory-overview document is compiled from award-winning research undertaken by Dr.@DauCol.

Our investigation team shall publish complimentary technical analyses of this research’s invaluable data & unique insights over the coming months.

Technical output that shall practicably inform law enforcement practitioners’ & other key stakeholders’ efforts in disrupting the deadly illicit activities of transnational organised crime groups & terrorist organisations.
#Justice4AllSouthSudanese

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Dau Ding. Violent crime and extremism in South Sudan: The modus operandi of organised criminal groups and political corruption, 17 June 2021, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…]

*Violent Crime and Extremism in South Sudan: The Modus Operandi of Organised Criminal Groups and Political Corruption*

*ABSTRACT*

Environmental Criminology (EC) theories are regularly employed by law enforcement practitioners within their efforts to disrupt the criminal…

…activities of motivated offenders. However, EC theories have not been utilised to combat the illicit activities of “State-supported” offenders. This study explored organised crime in South Sudan by applying EC theories and large group population psychoanalysis. A null…

…hypothesis - “violent crime in South Sudan is not associated with ideological extremism” - was postulated and assessed. Fifty-Four South Sudanese government officials participated in semi-structured interviews.

Violent crime and organised crime were reported to be common in South Sudan. Both were identified as being facilitated by political corruption. The study concludes that there is no association between ideological extremism and violent crime; including ethnic and tribal extremism.

EC theories and population psychoanalysis may be cogently employed to practically inform stakeholders’ efforts in combating the criminal activities of State-supported motivated offenders. The EC crime triangle is a useful tool for highlighting State-supported illicit…

…activities that: Challenge democratic governance in failing or failed Nation-States; Undermine the international rules of law and human rights, and; Threaten global peace and security via transnational criminal activities, including the financing of foreign terrorist…

…organisations.

*KEYWORDS:*
Criminology, Group Identity, Forensic Psychology, Terrorism, Democracy, Africa

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*DISCUSSION*

“The gaslighting that is mobilised by the malignantly narcissistic leadership over a socially regressed & sequacious South Sudanese population, is undertaken to ensure that any leader of any subgroup is able to convey their alleged value to being (and remaining)…

…part of a particular SPLM subgroup’s enterprises. Thus far, & largely by virtue of Salva Kiir’s status as the recognised Head of State, the SPLM-IG subgroup garners most foreign international support; including military support from neighbouring countries like Uganda.

How long that this will last for is unclear by virtue of the country’s continued failed status & fragility. What is becoming increasingly clear however, as South Sudan moves towards its first ever national general elections, is that any process that abruptly removes Kiir from…

…his “significant individual of interest” position jeopardises the ongoing & perpetual success of the “personal profit-making business” of the whole SPLM-IG subgroup. There appears to be no clear & ready-made unifying successor to take over the leadership mantle & become the…

…“stable Boss” of the SPLM-IG. Consequently, some of the other leaders of the other fragmented SPLM subgroups, including those that have been in genuine opposition to the SPLM-IG subgroup, have begun to engage in reconciliation talks over recent months with both Salva Kiir…

…and his representatives from his SPLM-IG subgroup. The objective of these negotiations are to try to facilitate the return of some of the key leaders of the fragmented SPLM subgroups back towards the larger SPLM-IG subgroup. Ultimately, to then once again become a wholly…

…unified SPLM group. Whether these negotiations with the SPLM-IG subgroup shall succeed will be determined largely by whether the ideology of the other subgroups has remained as personal economic interest, or if it has become genuine sociopolitical and/or parochial,…

…ethnically emotive, “group think”. This author believes that the vast majority of the fragmented SPLM subgroups, including those that are still in genuine opposition to the Kiir-led SPLM-IG, remain with the same former ideology of the unified SPLM group -…

…“personal economic gain”. An ideology of oligarchy & kleptocracy that assists in the amassing of huge personal profits & wealth by individual members of an organised crime group that has amenably facilitating sovereign immunities as a principal component of its modus operandi.”

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