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National Conflict Mapping and Analysis: Peace and Conflict Trends in Kenya

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This simplified version of the study on conflicts in Kenya is drawn from the main publication, National Conflict Mapping and Analysis: Peace and Conflict Trends in Kenya.
The search to find new and more effective ways of resolving conflicts is a major preoccupation in today’s world, Kenya included. Conflict resolution and transformation have enjoyed increasing attention in research and policy discourse dealing with the dynamics of contemporary conflict. The nexus between political, security, economic, social, legal, and environmental factors in conflict have played a defining role in the country’s conflict transformation process during the 1990s and early 2000. An understanding of the dynamics of conflict in Kenya is necessary if we are to determine the most appropriate means of mobilizing early responses to violent conflicts in the country. This requires knowledge of conflict issues and their causes, duration of conflict (short-lived, sporadic or protracted) and attentiveness to the identities, interests and concerns of actors among other factors. Most broadly, violent conflicts in Kenya can be said to be directly linked to factors that contribute to the escalation of conflict which can be categorized as structural factors, accelerators, and triggers. Theories on how and why violent conflicts occur distinguish between structural factors on the one hand, and accelerating or triggering factors on the other. Conflict analysis is the systematic study of the profile, causes, actors, and dynamics of conflict. It helps development, humanitarian and peace-building organizations to gain a better understanding of the context in which they work and their role in that context.

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AWDF.0319

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Kenya : National Steering Committee on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management (NSC) Secretariat, Ministry of., 2011

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English

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9789966712547

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