Sensitizing Peaceful and Fair Electrol Process.

 

    AWC (Africa Woman and Conflict    Feature Service) in collaboration with KCA (Kenya Correspondent Association) conducts an important workshop on how to approach and report on Conflict sensitive stories with Nakuru county journalists as Kenya heads to General election.


The workshop tried to come up with concrete ways to overcome scenarios that caused an international attention on 2007/2008 PEV(Post Election Violence). Here are some of the causes of conflicts that erupts once General Election comes:

1 Land

2 Unemployment

3 Political incitement

4 Control over Nakuru town

5 Tribal leadership

6 Resources; such as water etc

7 Power

8 Tribal affiliations to political
   parties

9 Hawking

10 National leadership

11 Elective positions within
     Devolved goverment

12 ICC process

13 Propaganda;falsehood,innuendos etc

14 Influx of Somalis and Sudanese

15 Cattle rustling among
     communities

16 Drug and substances abuse

17 Gender inequality

18 Unsolved problems among   
     warring communities

19 Lack of morals and principles among the people

20 Elites and illiterates.

The Journalists and civil society in the Forum came up with ways to solve this and agreed to apply and exercise it in their reporting and proffession.



"As Journalists you must stand on code and ethics as a professional," Orlale said to Journalists and civil society in the forum.


Community based radio stations were urged to sensitize on National unity.



Journalists in Nakuru county assured that the coming general election would be fair and peaceful basing on what they write as they exercise code and ethics of journalism especially when reporting on the conflict sensitive stories.