Department of Political Science: Recent submissions
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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. ... -
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 ... -
The Colonial Transformation of Agriculture in Siaya 1894–1945
(PhD, Kenyatta University, 2001)This study focuses on agricultural change in Siaya between 1894 and 1945. The study contends that the people of Siaya had an efficient, self-sustaining and dynamic agricultural system prior to the advent of and establishment ... -
Civil-Military Cooperation in Conflict Management and Peace Process: Determinants and Sources of Friction; Kenya Defense Forces and Disarmament in North Rift
(AALBORG University, 2016)This thesis is about the civil-military cooperation in the disarmament exercise carried out by Kenya Defense Forces in collaboration with other civilian actors in North Rift region in Kenya under the name Operation Dumisha ... -
International Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Why would the international intervention be considered less successful?
(GRIN Verlag, 2018)Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject Politics-International Politics-Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 12,, course: Political Science and International Relations, Contemporary ... -
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 ... -
Non-tarriff barriers and the economic integration the East African community
(ZENITH International Research & Academic Foundation (ZIRAF) India, 2013)The key objective for the adoption of the East African Community (EAC) Customs Union in 2006 was to enhance the economic integration of the region through the elimination of tariffs and non-tariff barriers (NTBs). This ... -
Regional integration in East Africa: Opportunities and challenges for small business enterprises in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Within the global economic environment, regional integration provides the most favored avenue to foster economic cooperation among states. The European Union (EU) is one of the most successful regional integration platforms ... -
Regime types influencing integration within the framework of the East Africa Community
(Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, 2015)Regional integration has been tried world wide starting with European Union, ASEAN, Arab league, NAFTA, LAFTA, ECOWAS, SADC and now East Africa Community with some having more success than others. East Africa Community ... -
Regionalism and Regions: East Africa Integration or Disintegration, 2019, Lambert Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-620-0-22651-8
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Regional integration in East Africa: Opportunities and challenges for small business enterprises in Kenya
(2015-05-04)Within the global economic environment, regional integration provides the most favored avenue to foster economic cooperation among states. The European Union (EU) is one of the most successful regional integration platforms ... -
Regime types influencing integration within the framework of the East Africa Community
(Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, 2015)Regional integration has been tried world wide starting with European Union, ASEAN, Arab league, NAFTA, LAFTA, ECOWAS, SADC and now East Africa Community with some having more success than others. East Africa Community ... -
Performance of women-owned enterprises in Mumias town
(Nairobi university, 2003)This study examines how socio-economic characteristics affect the performance of women owned enterprises in Mumias town. This study builds upon the premise that differences in socio- economic characteristics affects ... -
The social and economic contributions of the united nations system in kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2003)This project examines the social and economic contributions of the UN system in Kenya since independence. The focus of the study is on the agency specific contributions towards social and economic development. These ... -
Nile perch market liberalization and chronic poverty: drivers and maintainers of chronic poverty among fishing community in Suba district
(Universit of Nairobi, 2018)This study is about Nile perch market liberalization and chronic poverty among fishing community in Suba District. It identifies the socio economic characteristic of chronically poor households among Nile perch fisher ... -
Boundary establishment and its influence on pastoral resource conflict between the Pokot and Karamojong since 1902
(International Journal of Social Science and Technology, 2016)International boundaries remain finite lines of divisions by which national geopolitical space is delineated and contained. This understanding is based on territoriality and sovereignty of each state denoting what ... -
Taking stock of socio-economic challenges in the Nairobi Slums
(Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2012)Kenya s post-2007 elections violence was a landmark event in the country s political history and led to the death and displacement of over thousand people. The Nairobi slums are one area that was adversely affected by the ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
