Strategies of Conflict Resolution : Causes of War and Seeds of Peace in Abyei of Southern Kordofan

There are many intrinsic problems in the framework of the history of Sudan. Abeyi, is the most complicated and hard to resolve. The variability of income generating methods in the area was minimum, except for the claimed tribal and racial. Part of the theoretical framework of the thesis was that long coexistence between the tribal component, shared resources and kin-relationships could be important with the framework of conflict resolution. The recent economic background added to the conflict on resources which evolved from range and pasture strife to struggle to contain existing massive oil reserves. That enhanced central and southern Sudan governments to stands as parts of the confrontation. The introduced framework of Conflict Resolution comes as a fundamental pillar in political economic analysis. The present work analyzes the impasse of Abeyi that caste its shadow on the future of the Sudan as a nation. The main variables discussed in this thesis involve the historical backgrounds of the area, the tribal interrelationships and the civil administration of Abeyi. The analysis includes four digits-square parameters: win-win, win-lose, lose-win and lose-lose solutions. The model was applied to the Abeyi problem considering economic, social and political variables, with strong emphasis on the historical background of the area. Demographic effects were considered in the analysis and the solutions included also secession and joining the expected southern state, federal, confederal and independence. The results showed that it is possible to reach win-win solution accordingly. Civic administration stands as a cardinal variable that could play an imperative role in the solution. Based on confederal status, it is possible to amalgamate the demographic variance with the help of economic development