Francis Onditi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 112401 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Francis Onditi |
| PRENOMES | Francis |
| SOBRENOME | Onditi |
| ASSINATURA | ONDITI F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Riara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0931-7752 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Interethnic Marriages, Border Markets and Cattle Rustling
This paper addresses the question as to whether interethnic marriages reduce cattle rustling and its related violence in rural Kenya? Previous findings on the relationship between interethnic marriages and violent conflicts in rural areas are mixed. On the one hand, contacts resulting from interethnic marriages can build closer ties among ethnic groups. On the other hand, inter‐group competition resulting from closer interaction may breed frictio…
Border Market-Mediated Interethnic Contactivity and De-ethnization/Re-ethnization Spectrum
The association between intergroup contact and tolerance among different ethnic groups has been theoretically proved and demonstrated in several geographical settings and communities. However, it remains unknown how interethnic border markets (IBMs) contribute to this relationship. This study aimed to investigate the "intermediatory" role of the IBMs in de-ethnization and re-ethnization processes. We use ordered logit (OL) regression and analysis…
Diffusion of Al-Shabaab through ungoverned spaces
This article proposes a methodology for analyzing the social network behaviour of the extremist group (Al-Shabaab) within the context of ungoverned spaces in the Horn of Africa. Inkblot logic is introduced as an analytical framework that highlights the role of ‘loose bonds’ and ‘hard bonds’ in the geographical distribution of terrorists’ activities ranging from the group’s epicenter in Somalia to neighboring Kenya. Traditionally, policy analysts …
Eurocentrism vs. Afrocentric Scholarship
This review study aims to debunk the notion that the Global South, particularly Africa, is essentially a consumer of knowledge produced by the Global North. While some scholars have argued that the lopsided nature of the global knowledge architecture might be attributed to North-South politics and the historical legacy of colonialism, the issue of “self-consciousness” in reinventing scientific methodological approaches within academic disciplines…
Gaming Borderless Internationalism
This article develops a proposed unifying theoretical framework for the concept of ‘interlocalization ’ as an explanatory adjustment to the hegemonic concept of internationalism. This is a response to an exploratory study by Francis Onditi, published by the Futures, ‘Futuring an “Inclusive Knowledge Futures” Framework beyond IR Theories’, aimed at elucidating Afrocentric international studies scholars’ understanding of Africa’s futures that embol…
Gender Inequalities in Africa’s Mining Policies
Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories
Gender Inequalities in Africa's Mining Policies
Dominatarian Theory of Regional Integration
In this article an alternative thinking and methodological approach for the study of regional integration is proposed, addressing the limitations of classical regional integration theories and the new regionalism approach. A ‘dominatarian’ theory is introduced as an alternative analytical framework that exposes meanings attributed to a social force called ‘personness’, and how regions could be (re)constructed through this anthropocentric lens. Th…
How urban ‘informality’ can inform response to Covid-19
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Human Security Perspective to the 2018 Revitalized ARCSS and Beyond Francis Onditi (bio) INTRODUCTION This special issue is dedicated to a departed colleague and an eminent scholar: Prof. Samson Wassara. Samson sadly passed away on December 29, 2020. It was difficult to believe that Samson had left us. When a friend, colleague, or relative departs from this world, a vacuum is created, and those left behind see…
New Possibilities for a Peaceful Digital Society in Violence Prevalent Geographies
In recent years, scholars and practitioners alike have discussed technology and its relationship with peacebuilding and development. This debate has proffered clarity on how the lack of technology can aggravate underdevelopment and violent conflict. However, although this relationship has informed the evolving discourse over what constitutes a digital society, in practice, application of technology without considering human security dimensions ca…
Modeling a Pandemic (Covid-19) Management Strategy for Urban Slums Using Social Geometry Framework
The purpose of this paper is to utilize social geometry framework to model a pandemic (COVID-19) management strategy in densely populated informal settlements in Kenya. Our central claim is that the containment strategy that was instituted to control spread of COVID-19 failed to recognize the socio-cultural and livelihood complexities of the urban slum residents. This unmitigated strategy predisposed the residents to risks of heightened transmiss…
Covid-19 experience among slum dwellers in Nairobi
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the socio-economic and health dimensions of many societies across the world. For those in urban informal settlements, direct and indirect negative impacts of the pandemic and the resulting government policies have had devastating consequences on their livelihood. As the virus continues to spread rapidly, the more popular measures such as curfews, lockdown, and working from home have overlooked the fate of slum dw…
From resource curse to institutional incompatibility
This article seeks to address a policy quandary: despite Nigeria’s history of oil exploitation since 1956 and institutionalization of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in 2004, why has the country not been able to address the resource wealth–poverty dilemma? Is it that the EITI’s governance model is too Western to address Nigeria’s resource curse? It has been established that a country’s propensity to integrate EITI …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue:Women, Leadership, and Peace in Africa Nic Cheeseman (bio), Francis Onditi (bio), and Cristina D'Alessandro (bio) INTRODUCTION: WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA Are women empowered enough to make peace in Africa? Despite over two decades of multiparty politics, the answer appears to be "no," if we start by looking at the formal political realm. In general, women remain marginalized within African political systems.…
Politics of African Peace Support Operation Architecture
Peace support operation (PSO) institutions were established to support the African peace and security architecture in developing integrated capacities (civilian, police and military) for deployment in crisis situations. This institutional development is part of the transition from the Organisation of African Unity to the African Union (AU) within the Constitutive Act of 2000. Drawing from both operational and strategic challenges facing African S…
Civil-Military Relations and the African Standby Forces' Multidimensionism
The feasibility of a multidimensional African Standby Force (ASF) and the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises (ACIRC) is uncertain. This is despite the existence of a policy framework initiating the ASF and regional mechanisms (RMs). The policy was adopted and adapted to assume a multidimensional configuration, in May 2003 and in 2004 respectively. More than ten years after its establishment, there exist an unconcluded debate on whe…
Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories
Covid-19 experience among slum dwellers in Nairobi
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the socio-economic and health dimensions of many societies across the world. For those in urban informal settlements, direct and indirect negative impacts of the pandemic and the resulting government policies have had devastating consequences on their livelihood. As the virus continues to spread rapidly, the more popular measures such as curfews, lockdown, and working from home have overlooked the fate of slum dw…
New Possibilities for a Peaceful Digital Society in Violence Prevalent Geographies
In recent years, scholars and practitioners alike have discussed technology and its relationship with peacebuilding and development. This debate has proffered clarity on how the lack of technology can aggravate underdevelopment and violent conflict. However, although this relationship has informed the evolving discourse over what constitutes a digital society, in practice, application of technology without considering human security dimensions ca…
Gaming Borderless Internationalism
This article develops a proposed unifying theoretical framework for the concept of ‘interlocalization ’ as an explanatory adjustment to the hegemonic concept of internationalism. This is a response to an exploratory study by Francis Onditi, published by the Futures, ‘Futuring an “Inclusive Knowledge Futures” Framework beyond IR Theories’, aimed at elucidating Afrocentric international studies scholars’ understanding of Africa’s futures that embol…
How urban ‘informality’ can inform response to Covid-19
Modeling a Pandemic (Covid-19) Management Strategy for Urban Slums Using Social Geometry Framework
The purpose of this paper is to utilize social geometry framework to model a pandemic (COVID-19) management strategy in densely populated informal settlements in Kenya. Our central claim is that the containment strategy that was instituted to control spread of COVID-19 failed to recognize the socio-cultural and livelihood complexities of the urban slum residents. This unmitigated strategy predisposed the residents to risks of heightened transmiss…
Politics of African Peace Support Operation Architecture
Peace support operation (PSO) institutions were established to support the African peace and security architecture in developing integrated capacities (civilian, police and military) for deployment in crisis situations. This institutional development is part of the transition from the Organisation of African Unity to the African Union (AU) within the Constitutive Act of 2000. Drawing from both operational and strategic challenges facing African S…
Civil-Military Relations and the African Standby Forces' Multidimensionism
The feasibility of a multidimensional African Standby Force (ASF) and the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises (ACIRC) is uncertain. This is despite the existence of a policy framework initiating the ASF and regional mechanisms (RMs). The policy was adopted and adapted to assume a multidimensional configuration, in May 2003 and in 2004 respectively. More than ten years after its establishment, there exist an unconcluded debate on whe…
Civil-Military Relations and the African Standby Forces' Multidimensionism
The feasibility of a multidimensional African Standby Force (ASF) and the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises (ACIRC) is uncertain. This is despite the existence of a policy framework initiating the ASF and regional mechanisms (RMs). The policy was adopted and adapted to assume a multidimensional configuration, in May 2003 and in 2004 respectively. More than ten years after its establishment, there exist an unconcluded debate on whe…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue:Women, Leadership, and Peace in Africa Nic Cheeseman (bio), Francis Onditi (bio), and Cristina D'Alessandro (bio) INTRODUCTION: WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA Are women empowered enough to make peace in Africa? Despite over two decades of multiparty politics, the answer appears to be "no," if we start by looking at the formal political realm. In general, women remain marginalized within African political systems.…
Politics of African Peace Support Operation Architecture
Peace support operation (PSO) institutions were established to support the African peace and security architecture in developing integrated capacities (civilian, police and military) for deployment in crisis situations. This institutional development is part of the transition from the Organisation of African Unity to the African Union (AU) within the Constitutive Act of 2000. Drawing from both operational and strategic challenges facing African S…
From resource curse to institutional incompatibility
This article seeks to address a policy quandary: despite Nigeria’s history of oil exploitation since 1956 and institutionalization of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in 2004, why has the country not been able to address the resource wealth–poverty dilemma? Is it that the EITI’s governance model is too Western to address Nigeria’s resource curse? It has been established that a country’s propensity to integrate EITI …
New Possibilities for a Peaceful Digital Society in Violence Prevalent Geographies
In recent years, scholars and practitioners alike have discussed technology and its relationship with peacebuilding and development. This debate has proffered clarity on how the lack of technology can aggravate underdevelopment and violent conflict. However, although this relationship has informed the evolving discourse over what constitutes a digital society, in practice, application of technology without considering human security dimensions ca…
Modeling a Pandemic (Covid-19) Management Strategy for Urban Slums Using Social Geometry Framework
The purpose of this paper is to utilize social geometry framework to model a pandemic (COVID-19) management strategy in densely populated informal settlements in Kenya. Our central claim is that the containment strategy that was instituted to control spread of COVID-19 failed to recognize the socio-cultural and livelihood complexities of the urban slum residents. This unmitigated strategy predisposed the residents to risks of heightened transmiss…
Covid-19 experience among slum dwellers in Nairobi
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the socio-economic and health dimensions of many societies across the world. For those in urban informal settlements, direct and indirect negative impacts of the pandemic and the resulting government policies have had devastating consequences on their livelihood. As the virus continues to spread rapidly, the more popular measures such as curfews, lockdown, and working from home have overlooked the fate of slum dw…
Dominatarian Theory of Regional Integration
In this article an alternative thinking and methodological approach for the study of regional integration is proposed, addressing the limitations of classical regional integration theories and the new regionalism approach. A ‘dominatarian’ theory is introduced as an alternative analytical framework that exposes meanings attributed to a social force called ‘personness’, and how regions could be (re)constructed through this anthropocentric lens. Th…
How urban ‘informality’ can inform response to Covid-19
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Human Security Perspective to the 2018 Revitalized ARCSS and Beyond Francis Onditi (bio) INTRODUCTION This special issue is dedicated to a departed colleague and an eminent scholar: Prof. Samson Wassara. Samson sadly passed away on December 29, 2020. It was difficult to believe that Samson had left us. When a friend, colleague, or relative departs from this world, a vacuum is created, and those left behind see…
Gender Inequalities in Africa’s Mining Policies
Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories
Gender Inequalities in Africa's Mining Policies
Gaming Borderless Internationalism
This article develops a proposed unifying theoretical framework for the concept of ‘interlocalization ’ as an explanatory adjustment to the hegemonic concept of internationalism. This is a response to an exploratory study by Francis Onditi, published by the Futures, ‘Futuring an “Inclusive Knowledge Futures” Framework beyond IR Theories’, aimed at elucidating Afrocentric international studies scholars’ understanding of Africa’s futures that embol…
Diffusion of Al-Shabaab through ungoverned spaces
This article proposes a methodology for analyzing the social network behaviour of the extremist group (Al-Shabaab) within the context of ungoverned spaces in the Horn of Africa. Inkblot logic is introduced as an analytical framework that highlights the role of ‘loose bonds’ and ‘hard bonds’ in the geographical distribution of terrorists’ activities ranging from the group’s epicenter in Somalia to neighboring Kenya. Traditionally, policy analysts …
Eurocentrism vs. Afrocentric Scholarship
This review study aims to debunk the notion that the Global South, particularly Africa, is essentially a consumer of knowledge produced by the Global North. While some scholars have argued that the lopsided nature of the global knowledge architecture might be attributed to North-South politics and the historical legacy of colonialism, the issue of “self-consciousness” in reinventing scientific methodological approaches within academic disciplines…
Border Market-Mediated Interethnic Contactivity and De-ethnization/Re-ethnization Spectrum
The association between intergroup contact and tolerance among different ethnic groups has been theoretically proved and demonstrated in several geographical settings and communities. However, it remains unknown how interethnic border markets (IBMs) contribute to this relationship. This study aimed to investigate the "intermediatory" role of the IBMs in de-ethnization and re-ethnization processes. We use ordered logit (OL) regression and analysis…
Interethnic Marriages, Border Markets and Cattle Rustling
This paper addresses the question as to whether interethnic marriages reduce cattle rustling and its related violence in rural Kenya? Previous findings on the relationship between interethnic marriages and violent conflicts in rural areas are mixed. On the one hand, contacts resulting from interethnic marriages can build closer ties among ethnic groups. On the other hand, inter‐group competition resulting from closer interaction may breed frictio…
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