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Governance, Institutions and the Human Condition /
Strathmore University organised the Fifth Annual Ethics Conference on Governance, Institutions and the Human Condition. Research papers were presented in four sessions, corresponding to four key milestones in the crisis that almost tore Kenya apart in January - February 2008: Constitutional law, Ins...
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Kampala, Uganda :
Strathmore University,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication; Contributors; Acknowledgements; In Memory of Professor H W O Okoth-Ogendo; Introduction; PART I: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW; CREATING A NEW CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER: KENYA'S PREDICAMENT; I. PROMISE OF THE CONSTITUTION; II. PROCESS FOR AND DRAFT OF THE BOMAS CONSTITUTION; III. CONSTITUTIONALISM AND CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER; IV. OBSTACLES TO ESTABLISHING CONSTITUTIONALISM; V. KENYA'S EXPERIENCE; VI. ESTABLISHING CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER; COURTS AND WRITTEN CONSTITUTIONS: RESPECTING THE WRITTEN TEXT; PART II: AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS AND IDEALS.
- Why is post-colonial africa so cruel? and why are we so silent?philosophical foundations of governance institutions; i. federalism and the common good; ii. governance without communities; iii. institutions and persons; iv. federalism and democracy; v. conclusion; ethics of the rule of law: impunity, public perceptions of justice and governance in kenya; i. introduction; ii. the rule of law, ethics and governance; iii. law, perceptions of justice and governance; iv. making law promise justice; v. conclusion.
- The use of traditional conflict management methods in the nation-state conflict in africai. introduction; ii. ethnic conflict; iii. underlying causes of ethnic conflict; iv. ethnic conflict regulation; v. modern ethnic conflict management mechanisms; vi. traditional mechanisms for conflict management; vii. case study of somaliland; viii. conclusion; part iii: education; something is rotten in the state of kenya; i. true education versus schooling; ii. the many faces of value education; iii. first school, first teachers of values; iv. value education in kenyan schools.
- V. signs of moral decay or rot in kenya todayvi. where did the rain start beating us? what are we doing wrong?; vii. conclusion; education and the problem of moral values: the case of kenya; i. the state of moral values in kenyan society: an overview; ii. moral values in education: traditional african education versus present african schooling; iii. the idea of an educated person; iv. 'quality education' requires 'liberal learning' in the curriculum; v. conclusion; the impact of conflict on learning in northern uganda and rwanda; i. introduction; ii. building the future on the past.
- Iii. school: barracks or home?iv. arua, west nile; v. lira, northern uganda; vi. gulu: twenty years of trauma; vii. rwanda; viii. conclusion; addressing human and social development: the experience of strathmore university; i. introduction; ii. conclusion; part iv: land; the land question in kenya: legal and ethical dimensions; i. introduction; ii. historical and contemporary manifestations of the land question; iii. legal and ethical considerations of the land question(s); iv. tempering legality with ethical considerations: the national land policy proposals; v. conclusion and way forward.