dc.description.abstract | This study sought to focus on the role of factors on the demand side in promoting
terrorism, a case study of the coast region of Kenya (2002-2016).
The study had the following objectives, the main objective was to establish the extent to
which factors on the demand side of terrorism have contributed to the spread of terrorism
in the coastal region of Kenya.
The specific objectives were to establish how historical marginalization of the people of
the coastal region has contributed to the spread of terrorism in the Coast Region and
secondly to examine the role of the high rates of youth unemployment in spreading the
terrorism agenda through the radicalization of the youths.
The study relied on the relative Deprivation theory as prescribed by Robert Gurr, the
theory argues that people embrace war, conflicts and acts of terrorism as a strategy of
fighting against perceived injustices such as marginalization and bad governance.
The study had two hypotheses it sought to test, they were, and marginalization of the
citizens in the Coast Region has been the leading factor on the demand side of terrorism
in the coastal area. Secondly, high rates of unemployment in the Coast Region have
forced desperate youths to engage in acts of terrorism.
The study targeted 60 respondents were drawn from all the 6 counties in the entire Coast
Region.
The study found out that majority of the counter-terrorism measures the government
undertook were focusing more on factors on the supply side as opposed to factors on the
demand side of terrorism.
There is little attention to factors on the demand side of terrorism; secondly, the study
also found out that youth unemployment, marginalization and oppressive and
unresponsive regimes were the main factors which made the people of the Coast Region
embrace terrorism as the measure of last resort to fight the perceived injustices.
Lastly, the study established that addressing inequalities strengthening of the antiterrorism
laws were the best measures that the government of Kenya can adopt and
effectively sort out the terrorism mess in the Coast Region. | en_US |