Undercurrents of ethnic conflicts in Kenya
By: by John Oucho.
Series: African social studies series,; v. 3
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Social conflict -- Kenya.; Kenya -- Ethnic relations.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE; title: BACKGROUND AND EVIDENCE; title: 1 Ethnic Conflicts in Africa: Evidence and Conceptual; title: Framework; title: 1.1 Definitions and Elaboration of Ethnicity; title: 1.2 Definition of Conflict; title: 1.3 Bases and Application of Conflict Theory and; title: Motives to the Kenyan Case; title: 1.4 Ethnic Conflicts and the Nature of Ethno-Politics; title: 1.5 Ethnic Conflicts in Africa: Evidence and Forces at Play; title: 1.6 The Nature of Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa by 1998; title: 1.7 A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Determinants of Conflict; title: 2 Kenyan Society: Historical and Social Background; title: 2.1 Kenya: A Land of Contrasts; title: 2.2 Classification of Kenyan Peoples; title: 2.3 Coterminous Administrative and Ethnic Boundaries; title: 2.4 Ethnic Clashes and Ethnic Cleansing; title: 3 Population and Ethnic Arithmetic; title: 3.1 Perspectives of Rapid Population Growth in; title: Conflict-Predisposing Circumstances; title: 3.2 Population Growth and Ethnic Arithmetic in Kenya, 1969-1989; title: 3.3 Ethnic Structure, Growth and Distribution; title: 3.4 The Question of Numbers and Resource Allocation; title: 3.5 Population, Ethnicity and Politics; title: 3.6 Kikuyu Hegemony and Ethnocentrism; title: 4 Evidence and Pattern of Ethnic Conflicts in Kenya; title: 4.1 Political Alignments Immediately Before Ethnic; title: Conflicts of the Early 1990s; title: 4.2 Media Coverage of Ethnic Clashes, 1991-1995; title: 4.3 The Conflict Areas; title: 4.4 Was There a Pattern or Mosaic of Ethnic Conflict?; title: 4.5 Chronology of Ethnic Conflict, 1991-1995; title: 4.6 Was Ethnic Conflict of 1991-1993 Spontaneous or; title: Politically Instigated?; title: PART TWO; title: TRIGGERS OF CONFLICTS; title: 5 Exogenous Determinants of Conflict; title: 5.1 Colonial Background; title: 5.2 Independent Governance; title: 5.3 World Economic/Political Order; title: 5.4 Regional Political Instability; title: 6 National Historical, Political and Demographic Circumstances; title: 6.1 Geo-Political Factors; title: 6.2 Politically Oriented/Historical Factors; title: 6.3 State Intervention; title: 6.4 Other Plausible Factors; title: 6.5 Spatial Distribution of Population, Internal Migration; title: and Urbanisation; title: 7 The Land Settlement Programme: A Recipe for Ethnic Conflict?; title: 7.1 Land: Implications of Its Alienation and Settlement; title: 7.2 Land Alienation and Its Implications; title: 7.3 Land Settlement and Its Perpetuation of "Divide and Rule"; title: 7.4 The Land Settlement Programme: A Recipe for Ethnic Conflicts?; title: PART THREE; title: CONSEQUENCES AND SOLUTIONS; title: 8 Consequences of Conflict; title: 8.1 A Conceptual Framework for the Consequences of Conflict; title: 8.2 Consequences for Displaced Population and Demographic Processes; title: 8.3 National/Societal Economic Consequences; title: 8.4 Political Consequences; title: 8.5 Social Consequences; title: 9 Post-Conflict environment: The Search for Durable Solutions; title: 9.1 Conflict Resolution: Theory, Research and Practice; title: 9.2 National Healing of Wounds and Coverage of Scars; title: 9.3 Operating at Different Wavelengths: Human Rights Watch and UNDP; title: 9.4 Conflict Resolution Options Worth Trying Out; title: 9.5 Tips for Stakeholders in Conflict Resolution; title: Bibliography; title: Appendices; title: A Nature and Scope of Conflicts in Selected SSA Countries; title: by Sub-Region, Year and Main Causes; title: B Conflict-induced Internal Displacement in Selected African; title: Countries, 1997/8; title: C Adoption of UN Guiding Principles on Internal; title: Displacement.