This report is based on ten days of desk-based research and provides a short synthesis of the literature on the conflicts and violence in Kenya.
Kenya is rife with violence. This includes high levels of sexual and gender-based violence and of intercommunal violence; low levels of persistent violence; cycles of election-related violence; and increasing numbers of terrorist attacks. The incidence, gravity and intensity of violence have all increased in recent years. The conflicts in Kenya are multiple and overlapping. T