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Title:Durable solution, help or hindrance? The failings and unintended implications of relief and recovery efforts for Kenya's post-election IDPs
Author:Lynch, GabrielleISNI
Year:2009
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:36
Issue:122
Pages:604-610
Language:English
Geographic term:Kenya
Subject:displaced persons
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240903346194
Abstract:Exact numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the wake of Kenya's contested general election of 27 December 2007 will never be known, as many IDPs who did not own land and/or did not seek shelter at camps will forever be omitted. Nevertheless, in practical terms, the government's figure of 660,000-plus clearly presented a grave and unprecedented humanitarian challenge. This article briefly outlines the parallel processes of return and relocation, and some new sites of grievance. While much has been achieved, processes of emergency response and recovery have been far from perfect, and a number of developments have rendered future episodes of violence and displacement more (rather than less) likely. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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