Undercurrents of ethnic conflicts in Kenya / / John Oucho.

• Superior document: African Social Studies Series ; 3
• VerfasserIn: Oucho, John O.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: African Social Studies Series ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)

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...

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.