IPI HomePublicationsPolicy Papers › A Choice for Peace? The Story of Forty-One Days of Mediation in Kenya

 

print print  |  share share back back

A Choice for Peace? The Story of Forty-One Days of Mediation in Kenya

Policy Papers - August 21, 2009

A Choice for Peace? The Story of Forty-One Days of Mediation in Kenya

Elisabeth Lindenmayer and Josie Lianna Kaye

 

 

The postelection violence that erupted in Kenya in December 2007 resulted in the deaths of over one thousand people and left three hundred thousand people displaced. While catastrophic, the scale of the social and economic destruction, not to mention the loss of life, could have been much greater were it not for the peace mediation mandated by the African Union in January 2008. The Panel of Eminent African Personalities, chaired by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, led the forty-one-day peace process, culminating in the Agreement on the Principles of Partnership of the Coalition Government. This paper gives a detailed account of the events which led up to this agreement.

Contact Us

Adam Lupel | Publications
E-mail

Recent Events

March 11, 2010
Gabon’s Bongo: “We Must Wake Up and Embrace Prevention”
President Ali Bongo Ondimba marked Gabon’s presidency of the UN Security Council this month by addressing an overflow audience of diplomats at the International Peace Institute on March 8th.

March 10, 2010
Secretary-General Ban, Gabon President Bongo at IPI Dinner
On March 8th, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined fourteen Security Council ambassadors for a dinner at the International Peace Institute to honor Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba.

March 08, 2010
US Official: "No Trade-Off Between Our Security and Our Values"
“International Counterterrorism Policy in the Obama Administration: Developing a Strategy for the Future” was the subject of a well-attended address at IPI on Monday, March 1st by Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the US Department of State.


View More