Content_paragraphs:  Intercommunal violence is not a new phenomenon in South Sudan. South
  
  Sudanese youths have engaged in cattle raiding and cycles of retaliatory
  
  intercommunal violence in the past, spurred by high bride prices, competition over
  
  resources, limited economic opportunities, lack of access to formal justice systems
  
  and gendered pressures on male youths that greatly contribute to gender-based
  
  violence and protection threats to women and girls. However, in consultations with
  
  the review team, stakeholders stressed that the dynamics of in tercommunal violence
  
  are shifting. Recent cycles of intercommunal violence have been highly politicized,
  
  leading UNMISS and other actors to categorize the violence as a subnational
  
  extension of political competition rather than fully localized intercommunal violence
  
  per se. Interlocutors informed the review team that, in the most recent outbreak of
  
  violence between Dinka, Nuer and Murle communities in Jonglei State, youths
  
  displayed high levels of organization. There was evidence of fighters being resupplied
  
  with weapons from outside the state and there were clear lines of communication
  
  between fighters on the ground, local power brokers and political  actors in the capital.
  
  Likewise, recent attempts to disarm civilians in South Sudan have triggered tensions
  
  and, in some cases, violence, because of concerns among youths that disarmament
  
  campaigns were politically motivated and not implemented evenly across
  
  communities.