An Examination of the Role of Conflict Resolution Mechanisms in Armed Conflict Situations: A Case Study of South Sudan

ABSTRACT

The abbreviation ADR stand for Alternative Dispute Resolution. Basically on the abstract about this research, is to examine the role of Alternative Dispute Resolution in armed conflict situations like the South Sudan case that I am now researching about it. The brief statement in term of introduction is to define the term dispute that is encompasses in this thesis because the area of my research deal with the application of ADR and the legal frameworks which are supposed to be apply in armed conflict situation because disagreement doses not comes vithout dispute. The simple definition of the term dispute as subject matter of this research in armed conflict situation, "dispute" is indispensible part of societal interaction since the inception of human settlement. If it is not well taken and resolved early. dispute between two individuals will grow up and become threat to national security, peace and stability. which are the basis parameter to measure the development of the nation. With the objectives of settling dispute in a more justifiable means where all the parties to the conflict have to accept to negotiate and agreed on the principles and the terms of the agreement. The ADR as method of settlement has its own jurisdictions where it can be apply and here it does not apply or covers, the objectives of this research is about the roles and mechanisms provides by ADR in the arms conflict for the case of South Sudan before and after independence. It has means of helping the parties to bring peace and also to find the way forward whether ADR as a mechanism of resolving disputes can be the only way to bring lasting peace if the parties to the conflict have agreed on negotiation terms. An example of 15th December 2013 South Sudan armed conflict was engineered within the ruling Political Party the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) on the issue of political changes and the amendments of the current SPLM Constitution of 2008.