CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS ROLE ON WEST POKOT AND TURKANA CONFLICT

Since independence, conflict scholars have argued that the previous Kenyan Government and by Extension Uganda, Sudan, The Southern Sudan and Ethiopia has ignored The north-western region of Kenya both politically and economically by the rest of the country. Characterized by droughts, starvations, ethnic conflicts and cattle raids, this territory is seen by the Kenyan government as a marginalized area, a space in "crisis" where violence has finally become commonplace. Almost every week, the national media reports increasingly frequent and intense conflicts: The Turkana pastoralists in Kenya are regularly attacked by the inhabitants in West Pokot and vice versa, Ethiopian pastoralists, in raids around the water points of the region, The Karamojong without proper redress. The environmental, socio-economic and historical context is crucial in the understanding of the emergence of such conflicts (I). Moreover, these conflicts are systematically described as ethnic conflicts for the control of water points, and fight for water a view which simplifies reality.

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Dr. Phanus Nalondo Kundu (PhD). Nasceu a 6 de janeiro de 1980, filho do Sr. John Kundu e da Sra. Mary Kundu Namungu, no subcondado de Kwanza, Condado de Transnzoia, Quénia. Sou o terceiro filho de uma família de sete para a minha mãe e ocupo a posição 17 de um total de 52 filhos para o meu pai.