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CoCooN. Cooperation and Conflicts Over Natural Resources Dr Moses Mwangi. Geographical Cover Areas…. Ewuaso-Ngiro River Basin Lake Turkana Basin Tana River Basin Athi River Basin. Characteristics………. Droughts Conflicts Poverty. Poverty is Unjust……………. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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