Abstract: Post colonial African states were characterized by leaders with larger than life personalities that embodied foreign policy. Leadership style therefore influenced the decision making process of any foreign policy objective. The study examines the role of Julius Kambarage Nyerere in the decision making process of Tanzania foreign policy towards the East African region. Primarily, it is a descriptive analysis of individual influence in decision making process of foreign policy. The p...
Abstract: The Government of Kenya has been on the move to eradicate poverty in the country. This has been seen through various Poverty eradication strategies and other papers put in place by the government. This study assesses the impact of Kenya Agricultural Productivity and Sustainable Land Management (KAPSLM) as poverty eradication strategy. It focuses on whether it has created and strengthened the self-sufficiency of smallholders’ rural farmers. It also focuses on whether the innovativ...
Abstract: There has been a global increase in the rates terrorism, violent extremism and radicalization throughout the world. Therefore, prisons are having to house and increasing number of radicalized inmates. This is especially pertinent, as it has been seen that terrorists and violent extremists often use their time within prison trying to radicalize their fellow inmates. The main objectives of this research were to determine the causes and challenges of violent extremism and radicalizati...
Abstract: This study looks at the establishment of the AU as a supranational legal entity with significant powers of intervention in domestic crisis situations and how, the constitution of the AU offers an alternative framework for organizing apolitical community. For over two decades Somalia has been in constant turmoil, and in turn caused the displacement of her people, loss of lives and also affected her stability as a nation. The instability in Somalia led to the breeding of terror cells...
Abstract: Global migration trends are appalling and are indicative of a deeper problem. It is estimated that more than 1 in 7 individuals are migrants. This translates to more than 232 million people globally. Currently, immigrants from North Africa to Europe has increased with countries such as Egypt, Libya and Tunisia being the most significant sources of legal and illegal immigrants especially in the wake of the Arab Spring. However, while scholars have attempted to address the issue of m...
Description: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts in International Relations at United States International University - Africa.
Abstract: South African foreign policy is not made in a bubble; as a democracy since 1994, its outward orientation is theoretically subject to lobbying and pressure from outside groups as well as jockeying among bureaucratic entities. This study aims to unpack the processes through which governments’ foreign policies are made, specifically in South Africa, to determine whether foreign policy making is in reality open to outside inputs, or whether the foreign policy arena as in many countri...
Abstract: The theory and functioning behind the creation of R2P was to bring about peace and security within weak states that are unable or unwilling to protect their own citizens. Globally, R2P is accepted as a commitment by Governments to prevent and end genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity as well as to create the necessary conditions and avoid circumstances that will prevent such crimes. Following this and given the increased number of weak states, conflict...
Abstract: This study aims to disclose the influence of hegemonic states on regional integration, using Germany’s role in the European Union as its main case study. Over the past decade, the European Union security and foreign policy was leaderless to a great extent. The Brussels-led foreign policy continued to be more vision than reality. The traditional Franco-German engine stuttered, and the United Kingdom looked inwards. Several crises erupted at the same time in Europe putting the Euro...
Abstract: Burundi and Rwanda, located in East-Central Africa, are two countries that have a lot in common. The most devastating similarity is that the two countries have both experienced violent civil wars resulting from the escalation of tensions between their main ethnic groups, the Tutsi and the Hutu. In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the Arusha agreement that ended the conflict in Burundi, the two countries initiated a series of processes aimed at establishing persiste...
Abstract: Slum fires impose significant social and economic costs including loss of life, destruction of health, property, dwellings and jobs while the interlinked physical and social vulnerabilities expose the urban poor not to single but multiple risks. Disaster preparedness and mitigation are the main methods of protecting such communities against fire disasters. This study sought to examine fire safety mechanisms and their effect on prevalence of fire disasters in Kenya slums. Nairobi wi...
Abstract: To escape political and economic challenges in the Middle East and Africa, many refugees and migrant are fleeing to seek asylum in Europe. Thus, Europe became overwhelmed with large influx of refugees in the last decades. The European Union (EU) member states have recently scrambled policy action to curb the increasing migrants entering Europe through the East, West, and Central Mediterranean Sea. The division in the European Union has led to the reemergence of nationalism which ha...
Abstract: The Chinese model of “developmental state” has offered a substitute to the Western model of market democracy. China has also sponsored infrastructure and industrialization developments that the West has declined to fund since the days of colonization. It is to be anticipated that these developments will at the end help Africa revolutionize, a dream that appears possible for the first time since independence. With Chinese presence ever increasing, the United States must now deve...
Abstract: The main objective of the study was to investigate the factors affecting the viability of women in entrepreneurship as a result of Nigeria’s oil dependency. The study’s specific objectives were to investigate the rise of oil dependency in Nigeria and to determine the factors that led Nigerian women to self-employment, the extent to which women entrepreneurs can make an economic impact and used as a tool for liberate women financially and also how factors such as entrepreneurial...
Abstract: The use of music in reconciliation and peacebuilding efforts has long been assumed with many times its importance and potential being unrecognized. This academic study sought to cover Kenya by assessing the various programmes and activities of actors involved in music ,within and outside Nairobi, who have used music as a tool and channel of communicating peace and dialogue particularly after the 2007/2008 elections violence that rocked the country. It therefore assessed the goals t...