Conflict Resolution and Crime Surveillance in Kenya: Local Peace Committees and Nyumba Kumi

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dc.contributor.authorKioko, Eric Mutisya
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-19T10:35:06Z
dc.date.available2017-06-19T10:35:06Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractIn the wake of widespread interethnic “clashes” and al-Shabaab terrorist attacks in Kenya over the last few years, the state has embarked on the devolution of capacities for ensuring security and peace to the local level. The state gave the rights to handle specific local conflicts and crime prevention to local peace committees in an attempt to standardise an aspect of customary law, and to Nyumba Kumi committees in a strategy of anchoring community policing at the household level. These changes were conditioned and framed by ideas of decentralisation and the delegation of responsibilities from the state to the community level. In this paper, the following questions are raised: Are hybrid governance arrangements effective and appropriate? To what extent do peace committees and Nyumba Kumi provide institutional support for peaceful conflict management and crime prevention in Kenya? What guarantees and what constrains their success? The author draws on ethnographic data from the Maasai–Kikuyu borderlands near Lake Naivasha, a former hotspot of interethnic clashes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKioko, Eric Mutisya (2017), Conflict Resolution and Crime Surveillance in Kenya: Local Peace Committees and Nyumba Kumi, in: Africa Spectrum, 52, 1, 3–32.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1868-6869
dc.identifier.issn0002-0397
dc.identifier.urihttp://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-10198
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/17675
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherGIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studiesen_US
dc.subjectKenyaen_US
dc.subjectConflict resolutionen_US
dc.subjectFight against crimeen_US
dc.subjectDecentralisationen_US
dc.subjectLocal authoritiesen_US
dc.subjectLocal community institutions/facilitiesen_US
dc.titleConflict Resolution and Crime Surveillance in Kenya: Local Peace Committees and Nyumba Kumien_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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