School of Development and Strategic Studies: Recent submissions
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From Securing the State Security to Regional Disorder: An Exploration of Instability in North Eastern Kenya
(The Asian Institute of Research, 2024-03-04)From the colonial time to date, North Eastern Kenya has witnessed sporadic incidents of instability characterised by conflict and insecurity. Scholarly studies have attributed instability to state capacity that includes ... -
A Broad Conceptualization of Social Change in Agritourism: An Examination of How Mobile Phone Technology Usage in Africa is Making it Possible
(CABI, 2024-02-02)This chapter examines the broad concept of social transformation in various domains, including agritourism, as well as the intricacies inherent in the process of its implementation, notably across African countries. It ... -
Social Media Marketing in Agritourism in a Pandemic World: Essential Ethical Considerations
(CABI, 2024-02-02)A global pandemic, such as Covid-19, can cause multifaceted crises, yet can also be viewed as an opportunity for agritourism enterprises to accelerate the adoption of digital technology, which is systematically reflected ... -
From Securing State Security to Regional Disorder: An Exploration of Instability in North Eastern Kenya
(Asian Institute of Research, 2024)From the colonial time to date, North Eastern Kenya has witnessed sporadic incidents of instability characterised by conflict and insecurity. Scholarly studies have attributed instability to state capacity that includes ... -
An Analysis of the Influence of Fisher-Folks’ Perceptions on Uptake of Impact-Based Forecasting Weather Information for Adaptation to Nocturnal Storms
(International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), 2023-11-10)One key hindrance to successful adaptation to climate change in poor-low-resourced regions is the continued use of traditional weather prediction methods. To change this story and enhance adaptation in the fisheries ... -
From Securing the State Security to Regional Disorder: An Exploration of Instability in North Eastern Kenya
(Journal of Social and Political Sciences, 2024-03-04)From the colonial time to date, North Eastern Kenya has witnessed sporadic incidents of instability characterised by conflict and insecurity. Scholarly studies have attributed instability to state capacity that includes ... -
From Securing the State Security to Regional Disorder: An Exploration of Instability in North Eastern Kenya
(The Asian Institute of Research, 2024-03-04)From the colonial time to date, North Eastern Kenya has witnessed sporadic incidents of instability characterised by conflict and insecurity. Scholarly studies have attributed instability to state capacity that includes ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Elided Populations: A Baseline Survey on Human Trafficking in Kenya
(International Rescue Committee, 2017)Trafficking in persons is a crime. It is gaining momentum in the continent and particularly in Kenya and also attracting the attention of actors who are working to combat it. This focus shows the multiplicity of actors ... -
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 ... -
Conflict between state sovereignty and the right of intervention under the Constitutive Act of the African Union
(Maseno University, 2009)he need to redress crimes against humanity and violations of human rights has underpinned the global idea of international intervention in the domestic sphere of a state's jurisdiction in the last two decades. This article ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Regionalism in Africa: Evaluating Economic Progress
(Exceller Books, 2021-03-03)African International Relations: Thematic Analysis
