Challenges and Opportunities for Grassroots Organizations-Led Peacebuilding and Cohesion in Kibra Informal Settlement, Kenya (original) (raw)

2021, International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education

Strategies Employed by Grassroots Organizations in Anchoring Community Peace and Cohesion in Kibra Informal Urban Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, 2021

In African communities, grassroots peace-building and social cohesion programs have a long history. Nevertheless, within "mainstream" peacebuilding discourses and practices, it was the post-Cold War local orientation in peacebuilding, expressed in the idea of peacebuilding from below, that gave greater prominence to these initiatives (Nganje, 2021).Lederach(1997) sees peace-building as "a comprehensive concept that encompasses, produces and maintains the full range of processes, strategies and phases necessary to transform conflict into more sustainable, peaceful relations" (p. 20). Peacebuilding is a complex, long-term process that aims to resolve relationship, institutional and social problems across a wide variety of processes that co-create a peace infrastructure (Lederach, 1997, p. 22).

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