Upper Nile University Diplomatic Relations, Resource Sharing and Conflict Management in South Sudan: A Case of Juba County

Abstract

This study aimed at providing a broader understanding of how diplomatic relations and resource sharing affect conflict management of nations like South Sudan. The objectives of the study were to examine the relationship between Diplomatic relations and Conflict management in Juba County, analyse the relationship between Resource sharing and Conflict management in Juba County and to study the factor structure of Diplomatic relations and Resource sharing on Conflict management in Juba County.

The study employed a case study and descriptive design while using qualitative and quantitative approaches. The study population was 348, selected using purposive and simple random sampling technique. The sample size determination was made using Krejcie and Morgan Table (1970) formula. The sample size was 213. The data analysis was made using Statistical package for social scientists (SPSS 18).

The major findings of the study were that there was a positive relationship between; Diplomatic relations and Conflict management in Juba County (r = 0.682, P-value < 0.01), Natural resource sharing and Conflict management in Juba County (r = 0.556, P-value < 0.01) and lastly variables explained 64.4% of the variance of conflict management (R Square =.339) such that unit change in diplomatic relations processes will contribute to a change in the possibility of conflict management by (.641) while a one unit change in human resource sharing will contribute to a change in the conflict management of the County like Juba (.506).

The study recommends that the County leaders should develop diplomatic relations with other international communities that aim at empowering people with education values and promoting an electoral process that serves the purpose of national renewal and peace commitment, involvement and allocation of resources, a need to make more use of an integrated application of litigation, need for alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and traditional justice systems in the management of natural resource conflicts, alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms such as negotiation, fact finding facilitation and mediation should be adopted since they have the potential to enhance environmental justice and lastly for should be proposals in the Community Lands Act.