| dc.description.abstract | This study examined the Role of African religious institutions in providing
psychosocial healing to women victims of armed conflicts in the Turkana and Pokot
communities in Kenya. Specifically, it investigated the role of African religious
dimensions of peace and conflict and their non-violent resolution as expressed in the
traditional religious and philosophical oral texts of the Turkana and Pokot people. It
demonstrated how they can contribute to our understanding and mechanisms or
methods for providing psychosocial healing to women victims of conflict between
Turkana and Pokot. Further, it sought to examine how African religious institutions are
resourceful to the promotion of peace and justice and their implications on conflict
resolution activities. The study was based on four specific objectives: To identify the
root causes of inter-community conflicts among the Turkana and Pokot communities;
To investigate what kind of traumatic experiences Turkana and Pokot women go
through; To show which extent African religious institutions are utilized and intergrated
in providing psychosocial healing to women victims of inter-ethnic conflicts; To
identify the approaches from African religious institutions that can be used to deal with
trauma in women victims of inter-ethnic conflicts. The study was guided by Anomie
and ethnophilosophy theories. This study employed a descriptive research design that
consisted of measures of central tendency (mean, mode median). The research area,
Kainuk which borders the two communities has a population of 10535 people. The
sample size of 182 respondents were selected for this study. | en_US |
