Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Legality versus Legitimization: Questions in Implementing the International Humanitarian Law – A Review of the ICC
However much it may appear that every civilized State today has properly understood the meaning of armed conflict within the context of the law of Geneva, still remains a big paradigm. It is a challenge to presume that ... -
Balancing of Rights in Land Law: A Key Challenge in Kenya
The attempt to revive African customary law has been persistent throughout the history of legal education in Kenya. Today more than ever before the country shall have to reconsider the role and importance of studying ... -
Enforceability Of Equality Rights In Kenya After 2010
The enforceability of equality rights in Kenya is a serious and honest attempt from lawyer’s perspective to critically discuss the development of human rights law in Kenya and the serious challenges facing the enforceability ... -
Human Rights And The Genesis Of Counter- Terrorism Practice In Kenya
Counter-terrorism measures adopted by various States and organizations have been accused of lacking human rights standards and threshold of international law. Anti-terrorism operations in themselves may be about good sense ... -
An Analysis Of The Challenges Hindering Effective Middle Level Media Training In Kenya; A Case Study Of Nairobi’s Public & Private Middl e Level Media Training Colleges
(University of Nairobi,, 2008)A Kenyan Journalist Joshua Arap Sang has been implicated as an International Criminal Court (ICC) suspect on crimes against humanity. Another, (Kenyan Journalist) Walter Osapili Barasa is fighting to resist an arrest warrant ... -
The Application of Porter’s Five Forces Model on Organization Performance: A Case of Cooperative Bank of Kenya Ltd
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)The apex of environmental scanning with regard to competition can only be found in Porter’s Five Forces model. This is a long side External environment scanning tools such as Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats ... -
Choice Of Methods Of Farmer Contact: A Less Emphasised Aspect Of Agricultural Administration
(University of Nairobi, 1982)This paper discusses the choice of extension method appropriate for introducing improvements in agricultural production, particularly in East Africa. Two methods are outlined, namely the individual and group approaches. ... -
Extension Education And Farmers' Performance In Improved Crop Farming In Kakamega District, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1985)Studies on the adoption of farm innovations have, especially in Kenya, focused on a single innovation, or a few innovations, but not for specific crops. This paper compares the extent to which the adoption of practices in ... -
Natural Hazards and Climate Change in Kenya: Minimizing the Impacts on Vulnerable Communities Through Early Warning Systems
(University of Nairobi, 2014-01)Disasters are an important cause of impoverishment in Africa, and Kenya is 1 of 11 countries in the world most at risk of disaster-induced poverty. In 2011 alone, 106 million people around the world were affected by floods: ... -
Determinants Of Poverty: Lessons From Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2008-12)Poverty and food security are twin concerns of Kenya in a manner similar to many affected developing countries. It is characterized by the inability of the affected households in the country to acquire and retain sustainable ... -
Burying The Dead, Culture And Economics: An Assessment Of Two Kenyan Cases
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Institute for Development Studies, University College, Nairobi: supplementary note
(University of Nairobi, 1969-07)This Institute was established in October 1965 for the purpose of initiating and directing research on socio-economic and cultural problems relating to the over-all development of Kenya in particular and East Africa in ... -
Techniques For Measuring Flow In Channels
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Issues In The Legal Organisation Of Irrigation In Africa
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Service Quality in Kenyan Universities: Dimensionality and Contextual Analysis
(2014)The dimensionality of service quality remains debatable with extant literature revealing divergence in thought. This study examined the dimensions of service quality and tested the existence of a significant difference ... -
Application Of Environmental Lavi Paradigm To Tame Conflict And Poverty In Natural Resource - Rich African Countries
(University of Nairobi, 2007)This presentation is prepared for a great occasion. Like most academics over fifty years of age, I have made several notable presentations, including those inaugurating specific epochs. But to me the present one is a kin ... -
Spatial Characteristics of Drought Duration and Severity in the Upper Tana Basin
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)Drought is a recurring hazard in many countries of Africa, and Kenya is thus no exception. In the majority of the countries in the continent, drought affects agriculture, since it is predominantly rain-fed and is the ... -
Application of Information and Communication Technologies for Documentation and Dissemination of Scholarly Output among Inter University Council for East Africa Member Institutions
(2013)African and other developing countries face problems of making their scholarly output widely visible and accessible. This is partly attributed to the fact that most scholarly output from this part of the world is documented ... -
Bloated wage bill: Finally, Kenya’s moment of truth
(2014-03-18)