Juniper Publishers journal of scientific and technical research

  Trends in Technical & Scientific Research Abstract The usage of Regional Security Theory is rampant in many areas of traditional security. It has not so much been applied to non-traditional security areas such as elections. The paper sought to find applicability of RSCT on the backdrop of the fact that many previous elections have been marred by intrastate violence, conflict laden electoral management dynamics (political architecture, systemic models, operational issues, and security strategies) which have unprecentedly caused threats to the East African regional security architecture in socio-eco-political perspectives. Despite inherent complexities that exist in Inter-State Security Arrangements (ISSA) due to functional-structural weakness of core state institutions, additionally, the researcher focused the study theoretically using Buzan and Waever’s Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) in Regions and Power which address areas of internal “security interdep...

  Trends in Technical & Scientific Research Abstract The work sought to find Kenya’s peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region (GLR) by comparing her participation through Statism or Regionalism approaches. It further found out why after independence and at the height of cold war, conflicts in the GLR of Africa increased significantly. The research looked at why Kenya had to engage in peacebuilding in the GLR in the period 1985 to 2005 in the countries Uganda 1986- 1989, Sudan upto 2005, and Somali after 1991 state failure. The theoretical framework explored the opinions of the realists and neo-liberalists on Statism and Regionalism approaches who suggest that both approaches in the end tend to give credence to state as the credited authority to engage in peacebuilding. Further they suggest that whether in cooperation as in Regionalism or via Statism the objective is survival of the entities. A conceptual framework was developed by the researcher interlinking the var...