CoCooN

Cooperation and Conflicts Over Natural

ResourcesDr Moses Mwangi

Geographical Cover Areas…

1. Ewuaso-Ngiro River Basin

2. Lake Turkana Basin3. Tana River Basin4. Athi River Basin

Characteristics………

DroughtsConflictsPoverty

Poverty is Unjust…………….

When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches

and honour are things to be ashamed of.

- The Great Philosopher, Confucius

Forgotten by the Government??

Now Being Remembered? ………

“I take very personal interest in this project. It is a matter of grave concern to me that

50 years after independence, a huge half of our country

should be struggling to put food on the table while

another half struggles to find out what to do with excess

food” Raila Odinga

Daily Nation, September 6,  2012

MPs pass tampered Integrity Bill

and they want more from the taxpayers……

Secure or Insecure?.......

Bad Politics??……………….

Political Accomplicements? .......

Leadership and,leadership

While leadership and integrity are first and foremost

political challenges, they cannot be

resolved by politicians alone

 - Kofi Annan

Kenyan Politician………………........

Politics is the second oldest

profession and is not very different

from the first- The late Ronald Reagan, President of the

United States

But whitherway? ………

“Kingdoms are made of clay”- Mark Anthony in

Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra

But…………

Appearances

are

Deceptive

Made a tourist attraction?Made a tourist attraction?

Restoring Dignity“Restore Dignity in the

poor by giving them freedom to solve and

respond to their needs creatively/Do not reduce them to “animals in a zoo”

- Inter Region Economic Network

Attaining Self Realization ……

“Men can starve from a lack of self

realisation as much as they can

from a lack of bread”

- Richard Wright (an African-American, author of Native Son and other sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction)

was born on September 3, 1908)

"BEING A PRINCESS ISN'T ALL

IT'S CRACKED

UP TO BE.”- PRINCESS DIANA DIED IN A CAR CRASH IN PARIS

ON AUGUST 31, 1997

“

“There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.” — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown when the NTC took control of his compound on August 23, 2011

Real Democracy

Democracy is a universal value and

aspirations, unbound by region, ethnicity, culture or religion

 - Koffi Annan

Tough Choices, at times…..

“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to

burn” - David Russell, a guitarist born on August 25, 1953

"Loneliness is the

most terrible poverty" Catholic nun Mother

Teresa of Calcutta was born in August 27, 1910

Conflict and Unkindness

“I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and

harsh it is here. Everywhere there is

conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken

this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white,

it's snow-white.” ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

Freedom! Freedom!! ………‘Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they

can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about

the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great

deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it’

- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani – New York City

Most Important…….

Build Turkana County self

confidence, to do business

and respond to its needs

Pushed to a wall…………………...

Even a goat can bite when conditions become

unbearable- Turkana Saying

Lets All Do Something ..

“If excuses were for sale, Africa would be the

richest continent”- former Nigerian President, Olusegun

Obasanjo

“Do not blame darkness, put a light on!”

- Chewa of Malawi

Make a Move………

Beginnings are

Never Easy!

Being Cognitive………

“The next time you walk outside on a

clear night and see the moon smiling

down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink”

- Neil Armstrong family, expressing hope that young people around the world would be inspired by Armstrong’s feat to push boundaries and

serve a cause greater than themselves

and remember ………

"It is not the rains in Ethiopia you need to worry

about, but whether it rains in America or Canada." (Food aid cereals that

drive African farmers out of productivity)

- a joke by farmers in Ethiopia

Lest we Forget ……..

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has

seen its brutality, its stupidity”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

- Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks : Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels

Bowing ………………….

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Where we are, were…….

“It is perfectly true that life must be understood

backwards but it is often forgotten that it

must be lived forward.”- Søren Kierkegaard, a 19th Century Danish theologian and

philosopher

Changing to PeacemakersThey will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. ... Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore. ... their

spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against

nation, neither ... Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

neither shall they learn war any more

- Isaiah 2:4

Ultimate Peace …………….

Blessed are the Blessed are the peacemakers, peacemakers, for they shall for they shall be called the be called the

children of God.children of God.- Matthew 5:9

Absence of Conflict …………..“Peace is not the absence

of conflict but the presence of creative

alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive

or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence”

― Dorothy Thompson

Destiny…….

Remind yourself that you are on a journey, and

your current circumstances are not your final destination. They are but a chapter in the book that is your

life.

The Being………

Don’t go around saying the world

owes you a living; the world owes nothing; it was

here first - Mark Twain

African wisdom …….

To stay together is

to know each other

- Kenyan proverb

Even Somali can offer advice!

….........the 4.5 power sharing formula

accommodates the interest of various claims

by distributing power and positions to all the

clans represented in the country………

- Hawiye, Darod, Digil mirifle, and Dir - get 61 seats each. The 0.5, a coalition of what are deemed minority clans, get just 31 

Ultimately: Ekicolong’, Abarait,

Aburo amid Whistles!

Ejok noi