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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Northern Kenya"”.
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Reducing long-term communal violence in Isiolo County, Northern Kenya
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration - Peace Studies, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Networking the Nomads: A Study of Tablīghī Jamāʿat among the Borana of Northern Kenya
Tablīghī Jamāʿat (TJ) ist eine transnationale islamische Laienbewegung. Sie wurde von Māwlanā Muhammad Ilyās in den 1920er Jahren in Britisch-Indien gegruendet. In Kenia fasste sie ab Mitte der 1950er Jahre Fuss. Ihre transnationale Partnerschaft begruendete sich mit Kenias Sunni Muslimen …
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COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL POLICIES AND NOMADIC PASTORALISM: A CASE STUDY OF THE BORANA OF NORTHERN KENYA, 1890-1990
… years, the Borana pastoralist communities of Northern Kenya experienced relative changes and transformation in their social, political and economic life. During their almost seven decades rule (1890-1963), the British introduced a number of policies to facilitate political control and economic …
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An analysis of local perceptions of the role of drought in exacerbating contemporary pastoral conflict in northern Kenya: a case study of Marsabit County
Pastoralists’ communities in Kenya have been co-existed since their migration and settlement in the region. However, frequent conflicts have been experienced among these communities due to scarcity of natural resources and drought. Pastoralists in Kenya are concern with raising their livestock, …
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Ivory poaching, sociality, and the role of behavior in conservation
… well-studied population of African elephants in northern Kenya under illegal killing pressure, with emphasis on social behavior. I describe baseline levels of sociality among adult male elephants prior to the intensification of poaching, compare hierarchical social network structure of female …
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Ethnic Violence on Kenya's Periphery: Informal Institutions and Local Resilience in Conflict-Affected Communities
… conducted in six conflict-affected counties in Northern Kenya.</p> <p>Comparative analysis of fifteen conflict episodes with variable outcomes reveals the conditions under which coalitions of civic associations, including local peace committees, faith-based organizations, and councils of elders, …
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Cyst morphology and serological variation in cystic echinococcosis patients from Turkana, Kenya
… caused by cestode E. granulosus. Turkana in Northern Kenya carries one of the highest CE burdens in the world. Between 1983 and 2015 a control programme implemented there by African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF) using ultrasound screening for diagnosis evaluated CE prevalence. Several …
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When identities collide: becoming founders in pastoralist Kenya
… longitudinal study in a pastoralist community in Northern Kenya, where business itself is nascent, and impoverished pastoralists are in the early stages of learning basic business concepts. I conduct an inductive, qualitative study of 51 pastoralists over three years. Applying both social identity …
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Climate, Ecology, and Human Evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene
… mammalian tooth enamel in three areas (southern Kenya & northern Tanzania, northern Kenya, and northern Ethiopia) demonstrate a long-term increase in the prevalence of C<sub>4</sub>-grazing taxa over time, primarily at the expense of C<sub>3</sub>-C<sub>4</sub> mixed feeding taxa. Pleistocene and …
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Denudation processes in a tectonically active rift on different time scales
… thus the efficiency of surface processes. The Kenya Rift is an integral part of the eastern branch of the EARS and is characterized by high-relief rift escarpments bounded by normal faults, gently tilted rift shoulders, and volcanic centers along the rift axis. Considering the Cenozoic tectonic …
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East African climate variability on different time scales : the Suguta Valley in the African-Asian Monsoon Domain
… the AHP from the remote Suguta Valley in the northern Kenya Rift, located between the WAM and ISM domains. The presently desiccated valley was during the AHP filled by a 300 m deep and 2200 km2 large palaeo-lake due to an increase in precipitation of only 26%. The record explains the …
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STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK AND QUATERNARY PALEOLIMNOLOGY OF THE LAKE TURKANA RIFT, KENYA
… seismic reflection data from Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Lake Turkana is the world's largest desert lake and the largest lake in the Eastern Branch of the East African Rift System. It is situated at ~2 °N at 360 m elevation and is ~250 km long and ~30 km wide with a mean depth of 35 m. The …
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Ethnic and political dynamics of poverty, employment, and wages in Kenya
… identity and other aspects of social cohesion in Kenya. In turn, this has more broadly affected her socio-political and economic stability adversely. Although it is widely accepted that observed economic wellbeing differentials can be attributed to a myriad of factors spanning geographical …
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Ethnic and political dynamics of poverty, employment, and wages in Kenya
… identity and other aspects of social cohesion in Kenya. In turn, this has more broadly affected her socio-political and economic stability adversely. Although it is widely accepted that observed economic wellbeing differentials can be attributed to a myriad of factors spanning geographical …