dc.contributor.author | Wanyande, Peter | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-24T11:19:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-24T11:19:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Revised Paper Presented at the USAID Organized workshop on Conflict in the Great Horn of Africa. Methodist Guest House, Nairobi May 21-23, 1997 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACH212.pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/38911 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the conflicts in the Greater Horn of Africa by looking at the causes or
origins of these conflicts, their major characteristics and their impact. The paper also highlights the
specific ways in which the states in the region have contributed to the genesis and perpetuation of these
conflicts. The paper ends with an examination of the various responses aimed at dealing with these
conflicts. The conflicts covered are those that have occurred and or are going on in Rwanda, Burundi,
Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Zaire and Uganda. Mention is also made of the Tanzania Uganda conflicts of
1979. The paper also discusses the violent conflicts that rocked Kenya in 1991/1992 following the
legalization of multiparty politics.
Interest in these conflicts is justified on a number of practical grounds. First is that the conflicts
are very costly to the governments and the peoples of the region as a whole and the individual countries
in which they occur. The costs are in terms of loss of human life and property and the destruction of
public infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in many of the countries in
which the conflicts occur. Many others have also suffered and continue to suffer untold psychological
trauma associated with conflicts. Second, these conflicts drain the scarce resources available to the
affected countries. Once conflicts occur, scarce resources are inevitably diverted to the purchase of
military equipment at the expense of socio-economic development. This is not to mention the fact that
the conflicts disrupt normal economic activities such as agriculture and trade. Third, the conflicts and
violence they generate in any one country creates insecurity and related problems far beyond the
countries in which they originate. Conflicts in the region have also caused diplomatic tensions between
neighbouring countries in the region. Fifth, most of these conflicts have resulted in large numbers of
refugees and displaced persons. Finally the failure of individual governments in the countries | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.title | State driven conflict in the Greater Horn of Africa | en |
dc.type | Presentation | en |
local.publisher | Department of Goverment, University of Nairobi | en |