ABSTRACT
The Commission interviewed over 40 witnesses and examined 110 confidential records pertaining to corruption, embezzlement, and misappropriation as well as environmental harms in South Sudan. This seems to be a good information strategy. The Commission “was satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that an incident or pattern of conduct had occurred only when it had obtained a reliable body of information, consistent with other material, upon which a reasonable and ordinarily prudent person would believe that the incident or pattern of conduct had occurred”. This was no value-oriented investigation for the United Nations. Probably, no extensive investigation represents a profitable investment for the UN. However, an investigation might add value to stakeholders in the country if the report was to be taken serious by application of the strategies of carrot or stick. Unfortunately, the report seems to be one of many that end up on the shelf in an office at the United Nations in New York. The privileged elite in South Sudan can disregard the report by claiming that the investigators did not understand the situation in their country. They can express a strong dislike against all foreigners who criticize their internal affairs.
