My research interest encompasses a broad range of topics including politically induced mobility, electoral violence, political trauma and amnesia and it impact on political identity formation. I also examine the impact pf politically induced mobility on the development potential of rural communities.
My PhD research seeks to understand the significance of land as a politically inducement that has led to politically violence and politically induced mobility and the challenges it poses for the return and resettlement of displaced persons in Kenya.
Furthermore, my research seeks to examine the politics of return and resettlement as part of politically induced mobility and the mechanism established to prevent further political induced displacement.
I am particularly interested in the politics of return of IDPs; Is return determined by ancestral land or land or birth or occupation. What are the social, cultural and political challenges faced in the process of return and resettlement? What about the displaced persons who were not willing to return to the place they were displaced from? Is resettlement the only option for those who would not return or had nowhere to return to? What of those who were resettled in given areas whose host community (tribe) were responsible for the displacement of persons in the first places.
And finally, how does political induced violence and mobility impact identity formation and community development.