What is it about?
Conflict and violence in the pastoral landscapes of northern Kenya is common, despite efforts to build peace. This paper tries to understand how different groups are involved in peacebuilding and natural resource management in Kenya, and how they develop legitimacy - or not.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that various groups involved in conflict and peacebuilding in Laikipia County, Kenya, borrow from each other (activities, customs etc.) to generate legitimacy and create a 'patchwork' of peacebuilding. This 'patchwork' results in peacebuilding overlap and gaps. For peace to be sustainable in the long term, the underlying issues that brought about conflict in the first place need to be addressed. People living in these conflict areas also need to be given opportunities to participate in politics, education and economic and social life.
Perspectives
This paper is one piece of a larger jigsaw. I hope that other scholars are able to take something from this work and continue to understand the context of conflict and peacebuilding in the drylands to enact change.
Jen Bond
Charles Sturt University
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This page is a summary of: A “patchwork” for peace: institutions and activities in Kenya’s northern drylands, Local Environment, December 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2017.1417360.
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