Intrastate Conflicts Influencing Human Rights Enforcement with Specific Reference to the Republic of Sudan, 1956 – 2011

Abstract

The objective of this paper was to Asses strategies for managing intrastate conflicts and mitigating human rights violation in the Republic of Sudan. The study design adopted was descriptive research that incorporated both, document analysis, quantitative and qualitative techniques. The findings showed that ahigh proportion (77%) of the respondents rated CPA’s contribution as a peace initiative to Republic of Sudan’s internal conflicts as average and above. The findings further revealed that the CPA’s contribution towards Republic of Sudan’s internal conflict had a significant effect on human right enforcement in Republic of Sudan. CPA and Referendum are the most popular peace initiatives in Republic of Sudan that has led to reduction of internal conflicts in Sudan.  According to the findings of this study. Not all peace initiatives were successfully in contributing significantly positive to resolving conflicts in the republic of Sudan. Initiatives such as ACPP and referendum did not significantly contribute to resolving conflicts according to the findings. The findings further revealed that strategies that were used to manage internal conflicts in Republic of Sudan were not successfull to some extent. More than half (61.7%) of respondents perceived that the strategies did less in uniting people of Southern Sudan. This is indicated by the current situation in South Sudan even after the secession; the intrastate conflicts have continued in South Sudan over resources and political interests. However, most strategies had positive influence on human rights enforcement in Republic of Sudan.   However, there were many (61.3%) respondents who agreed that the strategies speeded the secession of Republic of Sudan and contributed to peace in Republic of Sudan. On the other hand the results showed that these strategies were significant towards human rights enforcement in Republic of Sudan through; preventing further conflicts in Republic of Sudan, leading to stability in Republic of Sudan, making Republic of Sudan be accepted by international community, positively influenced North, South Sudan relationships, reduced intrastate conflicts in Republic of Sudan, contributed to peace in Republic of Sudan among others. However, the strategies at the time were far from reaching a satisfactorily level. The study concluded that the strategies that were in place did not work out well to a sustainable course.  The need for cooperative engagement comes from the conviction that no single association or entity that has the capacity of managing intrastate conflicts by itself. The study recommended that there is need for sober approaches to getting lasting solutions that could see conflicts reduction in Republic of Sudan. As per the findings an incredible need to deal with the root causes of conflicts and find the amicable solutions after the war is inevitable.

Keywords: Armed Conflict, Civil War, Intrastate Conflicts, Human Rights Enforcement