Security Governance in East Africa: Pictures of Policing from the Ground

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This collection of cases from East Africa, contributed largely by locally-based authors, explores the increasing security governance phenomenon in the region: that is, the mix of state and non-state actors, including private entities, volunteer auxiliaries, homegrown vigilantes and gangs, and the relationship between police and communities. Local dynamics brought by globalization, liberalization, the new scramble for resource wealth, inequality, and international terrorism are observed in detail, superimposed upon the well-known development challenges, ethnopolitical divides, and patterns of government and security provision which continue to reflect their colonial past. This book raises both practical and theoretical ethical dilemmas of the increasing fragmentation of security functions within Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, mainland Tanzania, and Zanzibar. It is a vital contribution to the non-state, plural policing debates and is of both local and global relevance.

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For anyone who aims to understand the multitude of security arrangements in East Africa, this edited volume is a must-read. It is the first serious and concise account analyzing how policing works at the interface of state, private, and communal security arrangements in East Africa. It provides detailed and impressive examples from Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, which do not only speak to each other, but which make this book a remarkable and convincing masterpiece in the field of Security Studies. In addition, this book addresses upcoming challenges for policing in times when the state is distant. -- Conrad Schetter, professor for Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Bonn
It is often claimed that security and governance areinterconnected. Without security, governance is impossible, but without governance, security is unsustainable. This book tackles the phenomenonof security governance in eastern Africa from various angles. The editors have assembled a cast of excellent researchers who have interrogatedsecurity and insecurityin Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.It is a book well worth reading. -- Samuel M. Makinda, Murdoch University
Highly recommended Kennedy Mkutu has brought togethera fascinating and original set of local case studies across Eastern Africaof pluralist policing that is, where several state, private, and customary bodies are involved in providing policing.An important contribution to a key local security issue for much of the developing world. -- Owen Greene, University of Bradford

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Kennedy Mkutu Agade is associate professor in international relations and peace studies at United States International University, Nairobi.