I think part of it is just that the south copies the north, and the north is heavily centralized, so that's how the south has learned to govern. It's repeating the same error.
My NGO is present in two of the border areas, Upper Nile and Warrap. Our access is okay, provided we work with all communities, which we do. We have quite a lot of funding from CIDA and the European Commission for food, security, and livelihood work in that area. But it's very hard to reach the huge numbers of demobilized or not yet demobilized young people. That's really the challenge in those border areas--those groups of armed young men who don't have anything to do except fight.
I was on my way down to one of our sites in Upper Nile about a month ago. I was hauled out of my vehicle, beaten up, and threatened at gun point. I had my glasses smashed by SPLA soldiers because they said I splashed their vehicle in the road. In a rain storm on a muddy road it's possible. But there's a very high level of aggression among those young people who haven't been harnessed into a police force or been given any alternative livelihood. That's one of the big challenges in those areas.