dc.contributor.author | Lind, Jeremy | |
dc.contributor.author | Mutahi, Patrick | |
dc.contributor.author | Oosterom, Marjoke | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-25T12:58:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-25T12:58:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-02-16 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lind, J.; Mutahi, P. and Oosterom, M. (2017) ‘"Killing a Mosquito with a Hammer’: Al-Shabaab Violence and State Security Responses in Kenya', Peacebuilding, 5:2: 118-135 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14369 | |
dc.description.abstract | Networked, transnational forms of violence pose a significant threat to peace and security in a number of sub-Saharan African countries. In recent years, Kenya has witnessed an expanding number of attacks involving Al-Shabaab – the Somali-based militant organisation. Kenya’s state responses to these attacks derive from a social construction of Somalis as a threatening presence, justifying a raft of hard security measures. However, this targeting has been counter-productive by driving a deeper wedge between Somalis, other Muslims and the state, and levels of Al-Shabaab violence have remained high. Seen from the social and political margins that Kenya’s Somali and Muslim populations occupy, recent violence continues a long-standing dynamic of insecurity in which the state itself is a central actor. Internal stress relating to state-led planning of social order built on unequal citizenships and the use of violence, enmesh with the external threat of Al-Shabaab, producing the conditions for insurgency and violence to spread. Reducing violence and building peace require greater understanding of how violence and security are seen and experienced at the margins. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Peacebuilding | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Peacebuilding;5;2 | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Politics and Power | en |
dc.title | ‘Killing a Mosquito with a Hammer’: Al-Shabaab Violence and State Security Responses in Kenya | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | © 2017 The author(s). Published by Informa UK limited, trading as Taylor & Francis group. | en |
dc.identifier.externaluri | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21647259.2016.1277010 | en |
dc.identifier.team | Power and Popular Politics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/21647259.2016.1277010 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2016.1277010 | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |