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4 Case Study: Election Violence in Kenya
4 Case Study: Election Violence in Kenya
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. In 1991, Kenya's second president, Daniel arap Moi (a mem 1 The introduction to this chapter is drawn from a background paper prepared for the workshop by Ryan Shelby, Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellow and J
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Approximately 100,000 people were displaced and about 400 killed. The 2002 election featured two Kikuyu contenders for the presidency: Mwai Kibaki of the newly formed National Rainbow Coalition (NARC)
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members, the rape of women by police forces, use of live ammunition against demonstrators, attacks by armed youth militias such as the Mungiki against ODM supporters, and attacks by ODM-affiliated groups such as the Sabaot Land Defense Force against supporters of President Kibaki's Party of National Unity.
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Other hotspots included the Rift Valley and the Eastern provinces, where ethnic tensions were combining with political machinations to increase the likelihood of violence. Politicians play on preexisting ethnic grievances, many of them involving land use, to recruit voters, said Bekoe.
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The first was the local capacity for maintaining peace. Local systems can be seen as components of larger systems and analyzed separately, if information and data are available at that level of detail, and thus serve as representative test beds for larger systems analyses.
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Because of the lack of time available prior to the elections, however, the impact of any analysis undertaken by the working group would most likely be retrospective rather than prospective. Even such retrospective analysis, members thought, could demonstrate the applicability of systems engineering to peacebuilding while enabling learning that would support future applications in places such as presidential elections in Afghanistan in 2014 and parliamentary elections in Burma in 2015.
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