All Outputs (4)

Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism (2022)
Book Chapter
Wairuri, K. (2022). Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism. In J.-N. Bach (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa (354-366). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426957-34

This chapter seeks to understand the designation of Kenya as a competitive authoritarian state through an examination of the use of the state police to, as it were, police politics. The use of state security apparatuses to enhance the capacity of the... Read More about Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism.

Merely Revealing: Transgender People and the Shift from ‘MSM’ to ‘Key Populations’ in HIV/AIDS Programming in Africa (2021)
Book Chapter
Camminga, . B., & Wairuri, K. (2021). Merely Revealing: Transgender People and the Shift from ‘MSM’ to ‘Key Populations’ in HIV/AIDS Programming in Africa. In D. S. Ndlovu, & S. Cooper-Knock (Eds.), Liberating Comparisons? Reconsidering Comparative Approaches (98-108). York Tree Publications

“Operation Sanitize Eastleigh”: Rethinking Interventions to Counter Violent Extremism (2020)
Book Chapter
Wairuri, K. (2020). “Operation Sanitize Eastleigh”: Rethinking Interventions to Counter Violent Extremism. In M. Ruteere, & P. Mutahi (Eds.), Confronting Violent Extremism in Kenya: Debates, Ideas and Challenges (135-150). Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies

Explaining and Mitigating Elections-Related Violence and Human Rights Violations in Kenya (2015)
Book Chapter
Ruteere, M., & Wairuri, K. (2015). Explaining and Mitigating Elections-Related Violence and Human Rights Violations in Kenya. In K. Njogu, & P. Wafula Wekesa (Eds.), Kenya's 2013 General Election: Stakes, Practices and Outcomes (112-123). Twaweza Communications. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh8r0bc.12

Much of the literature on human rights and elections-related violence in Kenya focuses on the patterns and nature of the human rights violations and assessment of the relevant norms that these acts transgress. Explanations of why the violations occur... Read More about Explaining and Mitigating Elections-Related Violence and Human Rights Violations in Kenya.