In the wake of Kenya’s 2013 elections, the term “peaceocracy” was used to capture claims that the victor had prioritized peace to the detriment of substantive democracy. Prior to the election, there were widespread fears that the country might experience similar violence to that witnessed during the country’s post-election violence of 2007/2008, in which over […]
Gabrielle Lynch
Gabrielle Lynch is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Warwick. She has been awarded multiple grants and published widely. This includes three monographs – I say to you: Ethnic politics and the Kalenjin of Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2011), Performances of Injustice: The politics of truth, justice and reconciliation in Kenya (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa: Democracy, Voting and Virtue (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Nic Cheeseman and Justin Willis – and three edited collections.
