• Right to housing for residents of informal settlements 

  The Shift (2020-07-16)

  This policy brief provides details of the United Nations Special Rapporteur recommendations regarding how governments can upgrade informal settlements within a human rights-based framework. A human rights-based approach ...
• Towards transformative climate justice : key challenges and future directions for research 

  Newell, Peter; Srivastava, Shilpi; Naess, Lars Otto; Contreras, Gerardo A. Torres; Price, Roz (2020-07)

  The study identifies and addresses gaps and future entry points for Southern-led research on climate justice. The paper argues that addressing structural root causes (historical injustices, land rights, political participation ...
• Annex 1-6 : SAIC mid-term evaluation 

  Wheeler, Joanna (2016-09)

  This annex summarises methods used in the mid-term evaluation process. Methods were diverse in order to develop a multi-dimensional understanding of the Safe and Inclusive Cities (SAIC) program. The analysis process ...
• Large scale land acquisitions for investment in Kenya : is the participation, and benefits of affected local communities meaningful, and equitable? - a case study of the situation in Lamu, Isiolo and Siaya counties 

  Kibugi, Robert; Mwathane, Ibrahim; Makathimo, Mwenda (Land Development and Governance Institute, 2016)

  The paper examines the pace of land acquisitions in terms of creating legislative and policy options to safeguard local communities that are directly affected, including compensation for land that is taken, and protecting ...
• Safeguards for communities during acquisition of land for investment purposes 

  Land Development and Governance Institute (Land Development and Governance Institute, 2016-10)

  High levels of poverty and a predominantly rural population raise questions of vulnerability to manipulation during large scale land acquisitions in Kenya. Exposure to negative impacts are inherent where social and ...
• Trajectories of state building and peace building in Ethiopia : the role of political settlement - a baseline study 

  Tadesse, Medhane; Ababu, Alagaw (2014)

  While the Ethiopian state has been strong in its capacity for control, it has so far been weak in its capacity to command popular legitimacy. The conflicts in 20th century Ethiopia were caused by the exclusionary nature ...
• Trajectories of state building and peace building in Ethiopia : the role of peace settlements 

  Tadesse, Medhane; Desta, Dade; Ababu, Alagaw (2017-04)

  In a region that is characterized by minuscule and diminutive span of statehood, Ethiopia nonetheless stands out. For many in Africa and much of the developing world, foreigners appropriated the period of entry into ...
• Reframing narratives of peacebuilding and statebuilding in Rwanda : a baseline study 

  Mwambari, David; Muteru, Alfred; Walsh, Barney; Bugingo, Irenee; Olonisakin, Funmi (2017-04)

  Social and political identity in pre-colonial Rwanda was organized through family, lineages, clans and other complex factors that indicated social and political belonging. It was a well-organized society with features ...
• Trajectories of state building and peace building in Rwanda 

  Mwambari, David; Muteru, Alfred; Walsh, Barney; Bugingo, Irenee; Munyaneza, Thomas; Olonisakin, Funmi (2017-04)

  The study examines Rwanda’s civil war (1990-1994) and the genocide of 1994 from a historical perspective, tracing root causes surrounding the creation of the post-colonial state of Rwanda. Re-born from the carnage of ...
• Building the state without peace or making peace without the state : a baseline study on the paradox of state-building and peace-building in Sierra Leone 

  Nyokabi, Jacob Kamau; Ikpe, Ekaette; Alao, Abiodun (2017-04)

  This study takes a detailed look at the process of Peace-building and State-building in Sierra Leone after its bitter civil war. The paper focuses on four issues: identity politics; an effective national political culture; ...
• Building the state without peace or making peace without the state : the paradox of state-building and peace-building in Sierra Leone 

  Ikpe, Ekaette; Nyokabi, Jacob Kamau; Alao, Abiodun (2017-04)

  Sierra Leone’s civil war resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 people. Key issues around international assistance in the search for peace serve as crucial barometers in assessing how the past might predict the future ...
• Nature of the state in Somalia and Somaliland : the conversations of the statebuilding and peacebuilding processes 

  Ingiriis, Mohamed Haji Abdulahi (2017-04)

  Somalia and Somaliland have taken contrasting routes in the process of state building. While Somalia followed peacebuilding and state building projects from the top down, largely externally-imposed from the international ...
• Reframing narratives of state building in Africa : lessons from South Sudan 

  Tadesse, Medhane (2017-04)

  The Sudan peace process and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement/CPA/ of 2005 did not realize viable state and sustainable peace in south Sudan. South Sudan is a deeply divided state under a divided and politically immature ...
• Reframing state-building and peacebuilding narratives in Africa : final technical report 

  Olonisakin, Funmi; Muteru, Alfred; Dipeolu, Adeoti; Nyokabi, Jacob Kamau (African Leadership Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016-10)

  This report covers all aspects of the project from its inception, including progress realised on the proposal objectives, outputs produced, challenges and obstacles faced during the research process, and reflections and ...
• Crises of war-to-peace transition and civil war recurrences : a focus on leadership building and the postcolonial state in Africa 

  Olonisakin, Funmi (2017-04)

  This paper focuses on process-based leadership as an entry point for discussion of war-to-peace transitions. Process-based approaches to leadership reside in the interactions between leaders and followers. Too great an ...
• Making a case for reframing narratives of peacebuilding in Africa 

  Olonisakin, Funmi (2017-04)

  This paper examines two main types of violent and armed conflict settings. The first consists of situations of armed conflict where violence ended on the battlefield, such as in Ethiopia and Rwanda. The second includes ...
• ALC course narrative : reframing theories of peace and state-building in Africa 

  African Leadership Centre; King's College London (2017)

  In terms of the course aims, three central issues relating to the narrative of peace building are essential: 1) the connection between peacebuilding and state-building 2) the possibility of contradictions and trade-offs ...
• ALC module outline : reframing narratives of peacebuilding and state-building in Africa 

  African Leadership Centre; King's College London (2017)

  The module aims to provide a fresh approach to the debate on peacebuilding and state-building in Africa by situating it in pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict contexts. It demonstrates how peacebuilding is anchored ...
• Thinking about peace and the role of state building and political settlement in the pursuit of sustainable peace in Africa 

  Olonisakin, Funmi; Ababu, Alagaw; Muteru, Alfred (2017)

  The nature of liberal peace used for reconstitution of states after conflict is essentially a one-size-fits-all paradigm. The central idea in this study is that it is the nature of internal conversations between leaders ...
• Peacebuilding as statebuilding in Kenya : remembering the role of historical injustices 

  Sefa-Nyarko, Clement; Sittoni, Rachel; Bartenge, Catherine; Murunga, Godwin (2014-06)

  When peacebuilding and state building are understood and implemented as post-conflict mechanisms alone, they leave out important elements of socio-historical engineering, and historical breaches of trust which, if acknowledged ...

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