A Critique of Kenya’s Security Sector Reforms (SSR) in the Fight against Terrorism

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dc.contributor.authorMwangi, Susan Waiyego
dc.contributor.authorOkinda, Albert Ochieng
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-09T12:47:24Z
dc.date.available2023-06-09T12:47:24Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe waning of the Cold War marked a shift in the concept of security from state-centric to the person-centered notion. In addition, this notion aimed at making security more applicable to such emerging threats of the 21st century such as terrorism, poverty and global warming, which present greater threats to humans than interstate wars. One of the major enduring threats in the provision of security has been radicalism and terrorism. In this regard, states have increasingly treated terrorism and terror threats as the single biggest challenges, initiating, in their wake several reforms in the security sector to deal with the challenge. This paper using data from extensive field research spanning three months and literature from various sources, examined the correlation of security sector reforms and global terrorism with a focus on Kenya. The government of Kenya, since the terrorist attack of 1998, has taken various security sector reforms in order to address the existing weaknesses with the national security architecture. These reforms have involved measures of reorganizing security institutions and rewriting of laws to strengthen these institutions in the fight against global terrorism. Despite the fact that many of these reforms have been undertaken and embedded in the current constitution, the threat of terrorism in Kenya remains a reality. Geo-politically, why do terrorists target Kenya? What are the (in)adequacies of existing SSR in curbing terror threats? What more can the government and its partners do in order to curb the threat to radicalization of the youth?en_US
dc.identifier.issn2319-7064
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/25752
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Science And Researchen_US
dc.subjectTerrorismen_US
dc.subjectsecurity sector reformsen_US
dc.subjectnational securityen_US
dc.subjecthuman securityen_US
dc.titleA Critique of Kenya’s Security Sector Reforms (SSR) in the Fight against Terrorismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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