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Undercurrents of ethnic conflicts in Kenya

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"This book analyses the ethnic conflict that engulfed Kenya's Rift Valley Province at the turn of the nineties when multi-party democratic politics were being reintroduced in the country. Its central thesis is that ethnic conflict in the country then was a function of several issues, among them ethnocentrism, politics, the land question and criminal behaviour in certain circles. Both its determinants and consequences are demographic, economic, political and socio-cultural, implying the risks involved in oversimplifying issues."--Jacket.

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
238

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE
BACKGROUND AND EVIDENCE
1 Ethnic Conflicts in Africa: Evidence and Conceptual
Framework
1.1 Definitions and Elaboration of Ethnicity
1.2 Definition of Conflict
1.3 Bases and Application of Conflict Theory and
Motives to the Kenyan Case
1.4 Ethnic Conflicts and the Nature of Ethno-Politics
1.5 Ethnic Conflicts in Africa: Evidence and Forces at Play
1.6 The Nature of Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa by 1998
1.7 A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Determinants of Conflict
2 Kenyan Society: Historical and Social Background
2.1 Kenya: A Land of Contrasts
2.2 Classification of Kenyan Peoples
2.3 Coterminous Administrative and Ethnic Boundaries
2.4 Ethnic Clashes and Ethnic Cleansing
3 Population and Ethnic Arithmetic
3.1 Perspectives of Rapid Population Growth in
Conflict-Predisposing Circumstances
3.2 Population Growth and Ethnic Arithmetic in Kenya, 1969-1989
3.3 Ethnic Structure, Growth and Distribution
3.4 The Question of Numbers and Resource Allocation
3.5 Population, Ethnicity and Politics
3.6 Kikuyu Hegemony and Ethnocentrism
4 Evidence and Pattern of Ethnic Conflicts in Kenya
4.1 Political Alignments Immediately Before Ethnic
Conflicts of the Early 1990s
4.2 Media Coverage of Ethnic Clashes, 1991-1995
4.3 The Conflict Areas
4.4 Was There a Pattern or Mosaic of Ethnic Conflict?
4.5 Chronology of Ethnic Conflict, 1991-1995
4.6 Was Ethnic Conflict of 1991-1993 Spontaneous or
Politically Instigated?
PART TWO
TRIGGERS OF CONFLICTS
5 Exogenous Determinants of Conflict
5.1 Colonial Background
5.2 Independent Governance
5.3 World Economic/Political Order
5.4 Regional Political Instability
6 National Historical, Political and Demographic Circumstances
6.1 Geo-Political Factors
6.2 Politically Oriented/Historical Factors
6.3 State Intervention
6.4 Other Plausible Factors
6.5 Spatial Distribution of Population, Internal Migration
and Urbanisation
7 The Land Settlement Programme: A Recipe for Ethnic Conflict?
7.1 Land: Implications of Its Alienation and Settlement
7.2 Land Alienation and Its Implications
7.3 Land Settlement and Its Perpetuation of "Divide and Rule"
7.4 The Land Settlement Programme: A Recipe for Ethnic Conflicts?
PART THREE
CONSEQUENCES AND SOLUTIONS
8 Consequences of Conflict
8.1 A Conceptual Framework for the Consequences of Conflict
8.2 Consequences for Displaced Population and Demographic Processes
8.3 National/Societal Economic Consequences
8.4 Political Consequences
8.5 Social Consequences
9 Post-Conflict environment: The Search for Durable Solutions
9.1 Conflict Resolution: Theory, Research and Practice
9.2 National Healing of Wounds and Coverage of Scars
9.3 Operating at Different Wavelengths: Human Rights Watch and UNDP
9.4 Conflict Resolution Options Worth Trying Out
9.5 Tips for Stakeholders in Conflict Resolution
Bibliography
Appendices
A Nature and Scope of Conflicts in Selected SSA Countries
by Sub-Region, Year and Main Causes
B Conflict-induced Internal Displacement in Selected African
Countries, 1997/8
C Adoption of UN Guiding Principles on Internal
Displacement.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
African social studies series,, v. 3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.8/0096762
Library of Congress
DT433.542 .O93 2002, DT433.542.O93 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 238 p. :
Number of pages
238

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3558319M
ISBN 10
9004124594
LCCN
2002018942
OCLC/WorldCat
49225458
Goodreads
440154

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