CoCooN: Cooperation and Conflicts over Natural Resources

1. CoCooN Cooperation and Conflicts Over Natural Resources Dr Moses Mwangi

2. Geographical Cover Areas… • Ewuaso-Ngiro River Basin • Lake Turkana Basin • Tana River Basin • Athi River Basin

3. Characteristics……… • Droughts • Conflicts • Poverty

4. 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

5. Forgotten by the Government??

6. 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” RailaOdinga Daily Nation, September 6,  2012

7. MPs pass tampered Integrity Bill

8. and they want more from the taxpayers……

9. Secure or Insecure?.......

10. Bad Politics??……………….

11. Political Accomplicements? .......

12. Leadership and,leadership While leadership and integrity are first and foremost political challenges, they cannot be resolved by politicians alone - Kofi Annan

13. 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

14. But whitherway? ……… “Kingdoms are made of clay” - Mark Anthony in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra

15. But………… Appearances are Deceptive

16. Made a tourist attraction?

17. 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

18. 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)

19. “ "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

20. “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

21. Real Democracy Democracy is a universal value and aspirations, unbound by region, ethnicity, culture or religion - Koffi Annan

22. 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

23. "Loneliness is the most terrible poverty" Catholic nun Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born in August 27, 1910

24. 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

25. 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

26. Most Important……. Build Turkana County self confidence, to do business and respond to its needs

27. Pushed to a wall…………………... Even a goat can bite when conditions become unbearable - Turkana Saying

28. Lets All Do Something .. “If excuses were for sale, Africa would be the richest continent” - former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo

29. “Do not blame darkness, put a light on!” - Chewa of Malawi

30. Make a Move……… Beginnings are Never Easy!

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. Changing to Peacemakers They 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

37. Ultimate Peace ……………. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. - Matthew 5:9

38. 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

39. 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.

40. The Being……… Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes nothing; it was here first  - Mark Twain

41. African wisdom ……. To stay together is to know each other - Kenyan proverb

42. 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 

43. Ultimately: Ekicolong’, Abarait, Aburo amid Whistles! Ejok noi