ABSTRACT
The Nuba people and their peripheral homeland of the Nuba Mountains in Southern Kordofan present a typical example of a community torn by recurring local conflicts, national wars, institutionalized violence and political instability throughout the precolonial, colonial and postcolonial history of the Sudanese state. The underlying dynamics, actors and consequences of those recurring violent episodes on the Nuba and their claimed territory are better apprehended when situated in the sociopolitical and historical context of Sudanese state formation.
