dc.description.abstract | Multiparty elections in most cases have been associated with violence that takes various forms
depending on the number of actors, the root causes, and the embedded interconnectivity with
other forms of conflicts. In most cases, election violence; especially after the elections occur to
indicate the disapproval of the election results and/or incumbent regime by the general
population irrespective of whether the reasons are ideological, structural or ethnic oriented. The
2007 post election violence in Kenya elicited paranoia and heightened suspicions among
neighbors who had lived and worked together for many years and it recorded the highest number
of deaths, property destruction, displaced people. In addition, it took a longer duration than the
previous election violence of 1992 and 1997 and it is after an international mediation process
that calm was restored. The fact that the magnitude and effect of the violence was much felt in
Uasin Gishu District necessitated the study to fill the gap in knowledge as to what caused the
violence and the extent to which the violence has been managed. The study sought to achieve the
following objectives: to establish the dimensions of the 2007 post election violence in Uasin
Gishu District; to find out the causes of post election violence in Uasin Gishu District; and to
establish how post election violence has been managed in Uasin Gishu District. The study was
guided by structural theory of conflict. It was established that the post election violence in Uasin Gishu District targeted members of the Kikuyu community who occupy Lelmolok and Bindura
farms which are Settlement Transfer Fund schemes; was caused by inadequate ECK legal and
administrative framework, poor governance structures and poor land tenure systems; and that the
post election violence was poorly managed by the government as it didn't take into the
consideration the underlying causes of the violence. | |