dc.description.abstract | Conflicts have many implications being political, economic, social, and cultural. Conflict lead
to lowering of economic productivity, weakening of political institutions of governance,
incapacity to provide essential services, destruction and depletion of existing resources, loss
of food production, and capital flight. There exist different methods of managing conflicts.
The most prevalent among the pastoral communities being the traditional justice system.
Under this system the methods are negotiation, mediation (or compromise), reconciliation,
arbitration, and litigation This study sought to achieve the following objectives; To assess the
extent to which negotiations influence social economic development among pastoralist
communities in Kenya, To evaluate how reconciliation influence social economic
development among pastoralist communities in Kenya, to establish extent to which mediation
influence social economic development among pastoralist communities in Kenya. Finally, to
find out how adjudication/arbitration influence social economic development among
pastoralist communities in Kenya. The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of
conflict resolution strategies on social economic development among pastoralist communities
in Kenya with special reference to Isiolo County. The study used descriptive design while the
target population for this study comprised the various stakeholders in Isiolo County. A sample
population of 193 respondents was used in this study selected using stratified and random
sampling technique. Primary data was obtained using self-administered questionnaires. Data
was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS Version 22.0). Descriptive
statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mean score and standard deviation were used for
all the quantitative variables and information presented inform of tables while multiple
regression analysis was used to establish the relations between the independent and dependent
variables. The study found that adjudication/arbitration strategy had the greatest effect on the
social economic development among pastoralist communities, followed by reconciliation
strategy, then negotiation strategy while level of mediation strategy had the least effect to the
social economic development among pastoralist communities. The study concludes that
negotiation strategies had positively affected social economic development among pastoralist
communities in Isiolo County. Regarding the reconciliation strategies, the study concluded
that reconciliation strategies had a positive influences social economic development among
pastoralist communities in Isiolo County. Capacity to reorient the parties and new and shared
perception had a great influence on social economic development among pastoralist
communities in Isiolo County. However, the study concludes that equality of opportunity was
found to have a little positive influence on social economic development among pastoralist
communities in Isiolo County. The study recommends promotion of meetings and discussion
between communities, increased inter-community recuperation and reinsertion, strong
intercommunity social cohesion. Further the study recommends that concession and
compromise should be done in first instance or immediately when a particular offence takes
place. There is also need for strengthening of existing values, norms and culture and conflict
resolution mechanisms. This will have consensual outcomes. Enhanced Mutual satisfying
outcomes and compliance with the agreement plans and inter-community mutual satisfying
outcomes on social economic development. The study further recommends that diminishing
natural resource base does not automatically lead to violent conflict if there are functional
local institutions, enforceable, respected land use plans and mechanisms and actualizing
access to justice for negotiating cross-territorial grazing access in periods of scarcity. | en_US |