<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/tca-tpb062617.php" class="has-thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; min-height: 125px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><header style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-right: 110px;" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;">Public Release: 2-Jul-2017</div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 17px;">The peace builders of Northern Kenya; Successful research led model spreads to other African nations</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px;">SHALOM CENTRE FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND RECONCILIATION</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 110px;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">An award-winning, research led model used to build and maintain peace between rival groups in Kenya is expanding through new African centers, beginning with Cote d'Ivoire, Tanzania and the Central African Republic. Founded by an Irish priest in the aftermath of deadly 2007-08 post-election violence (Kenya's next national elections take place Aug. 8), Nairobi-based Shalom Centre has successfully helped foster peace between 11 ethnic communities of Northern Kenya, where assault rifles are as common in households as cooking pots.</span></p></div></a><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Lawlessness is prevalent in the isolated areas of Kenya bordering Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, and family possessions include, on average, 1.6 AK-47s, the weapon of choice also of organized cattle-rustling gangs.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Weak institutions, porous borders and climate change, meanwhile, combine to make conditions harsher, nurturing historic, sometimes violent competition over scarce resources between the 11 ethnic communities of Northern Kenya with which the Centre works.</p></div><div class="">Full story here:</div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/tca-tpb062617.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/tca-tpb062617.php</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">========================================================<br class="">“… the serious meaning in a concept lies in the difference it will make to someone if it is true.”<br class=""><br class="">William James (1842 –1910)<br class="">Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955</div>
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