Gender Violence, Human Right and Peace Building in South Sudan: A Case of Central Equatoria State Human Right Commission, South Sudan

Abstract

The study focused on Gender violence, Human Right and Peace building in South Sudan. It assessed the relationship between Gender violence, Human right and peace building in South Sudan. The objectives of the study were to; examine the relationship between human right and peace building, relationship between gender violence and Peace building and study the factor structure on Gender violence, human right and 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 225respondents.

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 results in indicated that a significantly strong positive relationship between Gender Violence and Peace Building (0.798, P-value & lt;0.01). This implies that Gender Violence has a negative relationship with Peace Building. Thus, the question of whether Gender violence has a negative relationship with peace building in the Jubek was answered as true. The implication of these findings is that without local government campaigns for gender violence, peace building will not be achieved in Jubek.