[Post Election Violence in Kenya in 2007-2008, and Reconciliation as the Primary Mission of the Kenyan Church]

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Abstract

In this study we try to explore the happenings in “Post Election Violence in Kenya” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Post Election Violence in Kenya” and its relation with “Churches”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Post Election Violence in Kenya” and the effects of “Churches” on the Post Elections Period. Finally the research describes the all over understanding of the event as well as make recommendations as to what should be the role of churches and how they can overcome the after effects of the elections and move towards the peace in the country.

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER 16

Church and Colonialism6

Independent Church in Kenya7

What Kept Churches Busy11

CHAPTER 220

Role of Kenyan Churches20

Churches and Reconciliation25

Sexual and gender, conflict and post-conflict time29

CHAPTER 332

Churches Mission32

Churches and Peace Mission35

CHAPTER 444

Disciplinary Nation44

Administration of the Constitutional and Legal Reforms45

Land Reform46

Future Threats48

Recommendations50

CHAPTER 1

The role of church in the 2007 General Election and what it did to reestablish peace in the country after the violence of the election is necessary to analyse (Trench 2008 66). This post-election Kenya will return to assist us in determining the way Church should function in the future. The majority of Kenyans are Christians and the ones belonging to various Protestant churches are about 40 percent and 30 percent are Roman Catholic. Of about 6 percent are Muslims. Most Muslims live in the northeast and along the coast. Indigenous belief systems of people are about 10 percent which follow traditional non-Christian faiths. (Anguka 2008 36)

Church and Colonialism

Missionary church in the areas of education and health, in particular made a major contribution to Kenyan society. In 1926, the first high school was established to educate and meet the Alliance of Protestant Missions of Alliance High School, and I attended to hear the result of a missionary training. (Karp 2004 12)

However, the Church helped to lift the living standards of the peoples of colonial ideas in an adequate manner, it is also clear that it preferred instead to enter the colonial period of quiet diplomacy that did not do much to challenge social injustices and proved the inevitable fact that more forces would rock the boat. Thus, the evils of colonialism have acquired the image of a collaborator.

Reacting to calls for disestablishment and the Church of England, George Pitcher, "wrote The Christian paradigm ... withered with the British Empire. Intellectual Church and State that have a dim historical memory ...