Conflict in Northern Kenya from a Regional Perspective

Abstract

In recent times, East Africa has been affected by some of the continent’s worst conflicts, including Uganda’s ongoing conflict between the government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Kenya’s postelection violence, border disputes between Eritrea and Ethiopia, and the civil war in Somalia. According to Oxfam International (2007), the cost of conflict on African development was approximately $300 billion between 1990 and 2005. Such conflicts often create a number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, and have adverse short-and long-term consequences for Africa’s development. They also give rise to human insecurity, adversely affect health situations, and undermine progress in governance and economic growth.KeywordsConflict ManagementRefugee CampHuman SecurityAfrican UnionConflict PreventionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.