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DOI	10.1080/19376812.2014.884466
	Oil discovery in Turkana County, Kenya: a source of conflict or development?
	Johannes, Eliza M.; Zulu, Leo C.; Kalipeni, Ezekiel
通讯作者	Kalipeni, E
来源期刊	AFRICAN GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
ISSN	1937-6812
EISSN	2163-2642
出版年	2015
卷号	34 期号:2 页码:142-164
英文摘要	The recent discovery of oil in Turkana County in Kenya has brought to the forefront the plight of the Turkana people, a marginalized pastoralist group in semi-arid northwestern Kenya. Oil discovery has ignited considerable new-found interest in this neglected region by nonlocal Kenyan and foreign actors. Specifically, we use the resource curse framework to examine major drivers, impacts, and local perceptions of resource-based conflicts generally, and impacts of added vulnerabilities, risks, and opportunities introduced by the recent discovery and development of oil in Turkana County. Our preliminary observations indicate that the Turkana, on top of pre-existing and increasingly militarized interethnic and cross-border conflicts primarily driven by competition over scarce pasture and water resources, are likely to face the dreaded 'oil curse' that has brought untold devastation on the livelihoods of communities elsewhere in Africa. The central argument in this paper is that the recent discovery of oil will exacerbate pre-existing tensions and likely result in full-blown violent conflicts among the already marginalized Turkana against local and foreign investors such as Tullow Oil that are now converging on local towns of Lodwar and Lokichar in Turkana, unless effective and timely preventive and corrective action is taken.
英文关键词	turkana oil discovery oil in Kenya Turkana county pastoralists resource conflict
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000211730900003
WOS类目	Geography
WOS研究方向	Geography
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/331019
作者单位	[Johannes, Eliza M.] Inst Def Anal, Alexandria, VA 22311 USA; [Zulu, Leo C.] Michigan State Univ, Dept Geog, Geog, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA; [Kalipeni, Ezekiel] Univ Illinois, Geog & Geog Informat Sci, Champaign, IL 61820 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Johannes, Eliza M.,Zulu, Leo C.,Kalipeni, Ezekiel. Oil discovery in Turkana County, Kenya: a source of conflict or development?[J],2015,34(2):142-164.
APA	Johannes, Eliza M.,Zulu, Leo C.,&Kalipeni, Ezekiel.(2015).Oil discovery in Turkana County, Kenya: a source of conflict or development?.AFRICAN GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW,34(2),142-164.
MLA	Johannes, Eliza M.,et al."Oil discovery in Turkana County, Kenya: a source of conflict or development?".AFRICAN GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 34.2(2015):142-164.