International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

This study explores the emerging issues in conflict management such as the essence of women and youth participation, the quest for descent representation and methodological shift from a conventional top-down to a more participatory. These developments are considered as positive but entangled with economic return and larger scales of political and development agendas. The This study used ethnographic approach. Thus, the recent initiative to integrate “pastoral culture” and ensure local peoples participation in peace-building processes aimed the unprecedented changes of the Lower Omo Basin is just a beginning and has not yet induced a desired level of peace and stability. The conceptual and practical ambiguities in the process have instead generated new lines of social tension and spread mistrust between various groups.