PUBLIC FORUM ON PREVENTING VIOLENCE AND SUSTAINING GLOBAL INTERVENTIONS: LESSONS/IMPLICATIONS FOR KENYA

Kenya experiences election-related violence every four years. This is despite a very good peace process which was set up in 2008 following the most severe political crisis experienced by the country since its independence. During the then post-election violence, more than 1,500 people lost their lives in only a few weeks. However, little attention is paid to establishing strategies for preventing violence and sustaining peace in the country in a more forward-looking and systematic way. The objective of the event is to share comparative international knowledge on how to best prevent political violence and more so, work towards sustaining peace and discuss implications for Kenya, including during running legislatures and before and after immediate election rallying.

The public forum will be hosted by the Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR) in Nairobi in cooperation with the Inclusive Peace and Transition Initiative (IPTI) at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.