Community Participation and Its Effect on Security Agenda Setting in Nairobi City County, Kenya
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Date
2022
Authors
Ingasia, Felix
Muna, Wilson
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Full Length Research
Abstract
The world, specifically developing nations
such as Kenya are experiencing increased
crime rate. Kenya specifically has
experienced a surge in crime rate since
2014. Today, due to the dynamic and
diverse nature of crime trends security
agencies are engaging local communities
through various strategies in security agenda
setting. There is growing empirical studies
on public participation, however, the link on
how the framework affect community
participation in security agenda setting in
Kenya has not been adequately addressed.
Therefore, the purpose of this study was to
determine the effects of community
participation on security agenda setting in
Westland Sub-County, Nairobi County. It
was premised on three key theories, namely
agenda setting theory, systems’ approach
and stakeholders approach. The study used
descriptive research design to collect
primary data from the sub-county security
team. The researcher used interview guides
and semi-structured questionnaires to collect
qualitative and quantitative data from a
sample size of 49 respondents (1 SSIC
members, 2 ACCs, 1 OCS, 5 chiefs, 7
assistant chiefs, 11 Nyumba Kumi clusters,
5 peace committees, and 18 village elders)
selected within the scope area. The collected
data was analyzed using descriptive
statistics such as frequency distribution
tables, calculating rates and tabulation,
Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(SPSS) and content analysis approach for
quantitative and qualitative data,
respectively.The findings show that security
agents majorly use information sharing to
engage citizens in security agenda setting,
especially by holding public meetings.
Regarding intelligence gathering, the
findings show that citizens share intelligence
information more with security agents,
making it easier to maintain peace within the
scope area. Also, it was found that security
agents hardly share security-related or
intelligence information with members of
the public due to confidentiality. The
inferential analysis shows a positive
correlation between dependent and
independent variables.
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Keywords
Participation Strategies, Intelligence Gathering, Security Agenda Setting
Citation
Ingasia, F., & Muna, W. (2022). Community participation and its effect on security agenda setting in Nairobi City County, Kenya. International Academic Journal of Arts and Humanities, 1(3), 30-56.