Administration of peace keeping in Kenya: a case study of the Kenya Defence Forces

Abstract

This study appreciates that peace keeping has been applied by the UN and other regional organizations as a tool of conflict management in conflict prone environment. The post-cold war era has seen an evolution in peace keeping operations owing to the change of the nature of conflict from interstate to intra state, multiplicity of actors, complexity of the conflict to name but a few. This study is alive to a wide range of research conducted on the subject of peace keeping operations, hence the focus on administration of peace keeping operations with case study of the Kenya Defense Forces. This is informed by the fact that a mission mandate cannot be effectively implemented without a commitment on the part of the TCC and specifically the Armed Forces and which commitment is demonstrated in terms of provisions of resources to facilitate the deployment of troops in a given mission area. It is against this back ground that this study examines the various tenets of administration of a peace keeping operation and the obligations of a contributing country. These are the process leading to peace keeping operations, negotiations of the requisite documentation before deployment of troops, redeployment programs, selection of troops, reimbursement by the UN, pay and allowances, command and control in the mission area, food and accommodation, recreational facilities to name but a few.