The Role of Governance, Education and International Community on Peace Building in South Sudan: A Case Study of Juba County, South Sudan

Abstract

The study focused on role of Government, Education and international communities on Peace building in South Sudan. It assessed the role of government, education and international communities on peace building in South Sudan. The objectives of the study were to; examine the relationship between the role of Governance and Peace building, relationship between Education, International communities and Peace building, Governance and international communities and Peace building and study the factor structure on Governance, Education and International communities on Peace building. The research design was across- sectional and descriptive and using both qualitative and quantitative approaches in collecting data from the study population totaling 225 respondents . Sampling technique was used to select the sample of 183 respondents from the employees of the three NGOs and community members of Juba County. Data was analyzed using descriptive analysis option of SPSS version (18.0), and was then presented using Spearman’s correlation, multiple regression and factor structure loadings of the relationship and prediction for Governance, Education, International communities and Peace building. The major findings of the study were that there is a significant positive correlation between; Governance and Peace building (r = 0. 391, P-value < 0.01), Governance and Peace building (r = 0. 391, P-value < 0.01), Governance and international communities and Peace building (r = 0.188, P-value < 0.01) and between Governance, Education and International communities on Peace building (r = 0.391, 0.188, 0.1888, P-value < 0.01) The study recommends that leaders in Juba county and South Sudan as a whole, should try to embrace a democratic governance that which promotes good values such as participation, accountability, responsiveness, transparency and rule of law leads to effective peace building in a society so as to build sustainable peace, the international community must commit in providing capacity building, foreign aid, demobilization of the military forces and institutional reform, International communities should promote and advocate for a democratic governance and an effective education system. Peace building should be about supporting the transformative processes and these changes should unfold over generations.