Kenya Post Election Political Violence

Author : Kathleen Klaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108488501
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Violence in Kenya written by Kathleen Klaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of land and natural resource conflict as a source of political violence, focusing on election violence in Kenya.

Author : Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo
Publisher : Article 19
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenya written by Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo and published by Article 19. This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3.2 The "clashes" break out

Author : Godwin R. Murunga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789171066947
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spontaneous Or Premiditated? Post-Election Violence in Kenya written by Godwin R. Murunga and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen Klaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108802648
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Violence in Kenya written by Kathleen Klaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a key puzzle in the study of electoral violence, this study asks how elites organize violence and why ordinary citizens participate. While existing theories of electoral violence emphasize weak institutions, ethnic cleavages, and the strategic use of violence, few specify how the political incentives of elites interact with the interests of ordinary citizens. Providing a new theory of electoral violence, Kathleen F. Klaus analyzes violence as a process of mobilization that requires coordination between elites and ordinary citizens. Drawing on fifteen months of fieldwork in Kenya, including hundreds of interviews and an original survey, Political Violence in Kenya argues that where land shapes livelihood and identity, and tenure institutions are weak, land, and narratives around land, serve as a key device around which elites and citizens coordinate the use of violence. By examining local-level variation during Kenya's 2007–8 post-election violence, Klaus demonstrates how land struggles structure the dynamics of contentious politics and violence.

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Download or read book Kenya: Post-election Political Violence written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kenya: Post-election Political Violence" (ISBN: 1-870798-94-5) is a report that was written by Edge Kanyongolo and Jon Lunn and edited by Richard Carver and Njonjo Mue. Article 19, a United Kingdom organization that promotes freedom of expression worldwide, originally published the report in December 1998 and presents the online version. The authors highlight the ethnic clashes that broke out in Kenya following the December 1997 general elections and note the importance of land reform, impartiality of the judicial process, and an improvement in ethnic relations as a means to prevent political violence in the country.

Author : Kimani Njogu
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9966028145
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Wound. Personal Narratives about the 2007 Post-Election Violence in Kenya written by Kimani Njogu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narratives collected by Twaweza Communications in this volume tell yet another side of the story about the violence that engulfed Kenya towards the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008. The narratives are part of a Daraja Initiative involving media monitoring, reflections and documentation of the traumatic post-election violence period often associated with the contested presidential results of 2007. The goal of the project is to contribute to the protection of constitutional rights of all Kenyans and to the development of a just and democratic country. Because violent conflicts constitute ruptures and continuities and are often preceded by tensions over the uncomfortable co-existence of political, economic, social and cultural systems and relations of power as well as what is perceived as valuable, mobilisation for violence is driven by narratives of the legality and correctness of action such that notions of history, justice and memory are functions of narrative construction, power and authority. Narratives of violent conflict, such as happened in Kenya, are not absolute: they are contested, contradictory and incomplete. But they must be told so that the multiple voices from the citizens are heard.

Author : Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786992310
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in African Elections written by Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent’s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly the often intense internecine violence following disputed results. While the consequences of such violence can be profound, undermining the legitimacy of the democratic process and in some cases plunging countries into civil war or renewed dictatorship, little is known about the causes. By mapping, analysing and comparing instances of election violence in different localities across Africa – including Kenya, Ivory Coast and Uganda – this collection of detailed case studies sheds light on the underlying dynamics and sub-national causes behind electoral conflicts, revealing them to be the result of a complex interplay between democratisation and the older, patronage-based system of ‘Big Man’ politics. Essential for scholars and policymakers across the social sciences and humanities interested in democratization, peace-keeping and peace studies, Violence in African Elections provides important insights into why some communities prove more prone to electoral violence than others, offering practical suggestions for preventing violence through improved electoral monitoring, voter education, and international assistance.

Author : Fouere, Marie-Aude
Publisher : Twaweza Communications
ISBN 13 : 996602851X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenyaís Past as Prologue written by Fouere, Marie-Aude and published by Twaweza Communications. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the run-up to Kenya's 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were raised. Could past mistakes, especially political and ethnic-related violence, be avoided this time round? Would the spectre of the 2007 post-electoral violence positively or negatively affect debates and voting? How would politicians, electoral bodies such as the IEBC, the Kenyan civil society, and the international community weigh in on the elections? More generally, would the 2013 elections bear witness to the building up of an electoral culture in Kenya, characterized by free and fair elections, or would it show that voting is still weakened by political malpractices, partisan opinions and emotional reactions? Would Kenya's past be inescapable or would it prepare the scene for a new political order? Kenyaís Past as Prologue adopts a multidisciplinary perspective ñ mainly built upon field-based ethnography and a selection of case studies ñ to answer these questions. Under the leadership of the French Institute for Research in Africa (Institut francais de recherche en Afrique, IFRA), political scientists, historians and anthropologists explore various aspects of the electoral process to contribute in-depth analyses of the last elections. They highlight the structural factors underlying election and voting in Kenya including the political system, culture and political transition. They also interrogate the short-term trends and issues that influence the new political order. The book provides insight into specific case studies, situations and contexts, thus bringing nuances and diversity into focus to better assess Kenya's evolving electoral democracy.

Author : Stephen M. Magu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351142429
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Socio-Cultural, Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenya’s Electoral Violence written by Stephen M. Magu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya’s 2007 General Election results announcement precipitated the worst ethnic conflict in the country’s history; 1,133 people were killed, while 600,000 were internally displaced. Within 2 months, the incumbent and the challenger had agreed to a power-sharing agreement and a Government of National Unity. This book investigates the role of socio-cultural origins of ethnic conflict during electoral periods in Kenya beginning with the multi-party era of democratization and the first multi-party elections of 1992, illustrating how ethnic groups construct their interests and cooperate (or fail to) based on shared traits. The author demonstrates that socio-cultural traditions have led to the collaboration (and frequent conflict) between the Kikuyu and Kalenjin that has dominated power and politics in independent Kenya. The author goes onto evaluate the possibility of peace for future elections. This book will be of interest to scholars of African democracy, Kenyan history and politics, and ethnic conflict.

Author : Meshack Simati
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032174600
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Election Violence in Africa written by Meshack Simati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the effect of the judiciary on the incidence of post-election violence by political actors across Africa and within African countries. It examines how variation in judicial independence can constrain or incentivize election violence among democratizing states. Using case studies and cross-national analysis, the book shows that variation in levels of judicial independence from a non-independent judiciary to a quasi-independent judiciary or from a fully independent judiciary to quasi-independent judiciary increases the likelihood of strategic use of post-election violence by non-state actors. However, the likelihood of post-election violence is significantly reduced in non-independent judiciaries or once countries' judiciaries become fully independent. The author makes the theoretical argument that, within unconsolidated states, non-state actors that view the judiciary as semi-independent are more likely to engage in post-election violence with the purpose of creating political and professional uncertainty in order to influence assertive behaviour from judges in disputed elections. Consequently, the book argues that semi-independent judiciaries or judiciaries that are neither fully controlled by the incumbent nor fully independent from the incumbent can help explain post-election violence among unconsolidated states, all else being equal. This book will be of interest to scholars of election violence, democratic politics, law and politics and African politics.