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Regionalism and Regions: East Africa Integration or Disintegration, 2019, Lambert Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-620-0-22651-8
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Structural Violence: Moving beyond ethnicity towards and understanding of electoral violence in kenya
(Aalborg University, 2019)Ethnicity has come to be widely used as an explanation to electoral violence in Kenya. Research on electoral violence has been limited to electoral related violence in relation to the manipulation of the multi-ethnic ... -
Researching Refugees and Forced Migration in Eastern and Horn of Africa: Introducing the Issues
(Springer, Cham, 2019)Refugees, forced migration, and human displacement are growing across the globe, and increasingly a growing body of scholarly literature has tried to capture the most important implications of this disturbing trend. ... -
The Counter-Trafficking in Persons’ Architecture in Kenya: A Security Governance Perspective
(Springer, Cham, 2019)The many and nuanced strategies adopted by human traffickers have rendered the management of the crime to require complexity in the way it is being approached. This is because of the inner workings and the multiplicity of ... -
The Role of International Organizations in Peace and Reconciliation in Kenya
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019)The increased role of international organizations in the realm of conflict management and peacebuilding in Africa is a noteworthy development. The United Nations and other international organizations have taken different ... -
The quest for Turkish scholarships: African students, transformation and hopefulness
(Routledge, 2019)The purpose of this study is to move beyond the limited research emphasis on traditional South-North scholarship accessibility. We discuss and analyze how through South-South connections and scholarship opportunities African ... -
Between the Borders and Internal Control: The Evolving Character of the Nation State in a Transnationalist Pastoralist Zone: A Case Study of the Turkana of Kenya and Karamojong …
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2019)This paper sets out to analyze the impact of nation-state modernity on the pastoral Turkana and Karamojong communities of Kenya and Uganda respectively. Focusing on two defining features of a nation-state, that is, borders ... -
Localisation and participation within the rollout of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework in Kenya
(Sahan, 2020)Kenya formally adopted the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) in October 2017. Since then the country has made progress towards its implementation by undertaking self-reliance and inclusion measures for ... -
COVID-19 and mobility, conflict and development in the Horn of Africa
(World Bank / Sambrian Mbaabu, 2020-06)The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and the first cases in the Horn of Africa (HoA) were confirmed later that month. However, even before the virus reached the region its wider ... -
Good governance and service delivery: A study of citizen participation in Kisumu County
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Covid-19 and border restriction policies: the dilemma of trans-border truck drivers in East Africa.
(GP, 2021)The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the challenges that were faced by trans-border truck drivers within the East African Community as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and its management protocols. -
The making and unmaking of a megaproject: Contesting temporalities along the LAPSSET corridor in Kenya
(Antipode, 2021)In this paper, we show how communities in Northern Kenya proactively engage an unfolding megaproject and the temporalities it evokes—the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). We argue that the latitude ... -
Governing Emerging Technologies: A Systematic Exploration of Kenya’s Biotechnology and LMO-Specific Policy Documents for Adoption and Implementation of Synthetic Biology
(International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 2021)As an emerging yet disruptive technology, the most challenging questions surrounding synthetic biology (SynBio) are, arguably, those of regulatory nature. At the global scale, such questions have been framed within ... -
Regionalism in Africa: Evaluating Economic Progress
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Internal Capability of the State Matters in International Relations: Evidence from East African Tri-national Border Zone
(OSF Preprints, 2022)The realist theoretical perspective suggests that the ‘inside’ of the state is not a critical variable since, unlike the anarchical international system, the domestic arena entails a sovereign entity in form of a government ... -
Incoherent policies and contradictory priorities in Kenya
(Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Developmen, 2022-09-01)Policies should aim to realise a people or a group’s aspirations. However, in politically complex institutional environments, the design and adoption of policies may lose sight of common goals. Since the 1990s, Kenya ... -
One Step Forward, Two Backward—Every Five Years: Electoral Violence and Peacebuilding in Kenya
(Springer International Publishing, 2022-10-27)Over the past twenty years or so, the peacebuilding enterprise has witnessed the development of many frameworks, models, strategies, fundamental assumptions and principles designed to achieve sustainable peace. Peacebuilding ... -
Determinants of consistency of use of household water filters in emergencies: Insights from a protracted drought in Northern Kenya
(Public Library of Science, 2023-06-08)The consistent use of household water treatment and storage (HWTS) technologies is necessary for human health. However, most HWTS options are designed for typical household use as opposed to emergency contexts, where use ... -
Fisheries-based Determinants of Fisherfolks’ and their Influence on Access to Impact-based Weather Forecasting in Suba-North sub-County, Homabay County, Kenya
(EAST AFRICAN NATURE & SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 2023-09-08)Lake Victoria, the world’s largest freshwater fishery, supports the livelihoods of 4 to 5.6 million economically vulnerable people, with many living on less than $1.25 a day. However, the Lake also witnesses a staggering ... -
Somali refugees in Kenya
(2023-11)Kenya hosts more than 500,000 refugees, most of whom live in camps. The new Refugee Act (2021), which came into force in 2022, creates potential for new policy allowing increased mobility between camp and city. This ...