Environmental Conflict and National Security in Kenya: Case Study of Turkana Community

Abstract

The study is about the environmental conflicts and national security in Kenya and it will focus on people from Turkana community. The study investigate if environmental issues have any impact on national security and it is guided by environmental scarcity theory by Homer Dixon. This theory adduces a wide array of empirical work linking environmental degradation with violent outcomes, and articulates a preliminary theoretical framework to explain these linkages. Homer-Dixon points out, violent outcomes are often the product of interactions between scarcity and a number of other factors, such as inequality, migration, and the functioning of social institutions. Because violence rarely is caused by scarcity alone, it has been typical for researchers to look to the factors with which it interacts as the causes. Homer-Dixon calls for a more complex and nuanced view a multivariate, non-linear and interactive view of the social and ecological world. Data was collected from primary and secondary sources. Primary data are information collected directly from the respondents through questionnaires and interview schedules. Secondary data are information collected from the previous study these information‟s are contained in test books, journals, magazines and research reports among others. The methodology for the study will take a qualitative approach. This allow for the voices, views, opinions and stories of participants to be heard and was facilitated through a range of qualitative interview processes and focus groups. Descriptive statistics was adopted for the analysis of data in which gathered data was analysed in form of frequency distribution and percentage