2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Ethnographic research on alternative justice in the Mount Kenya Region
| Project/Area Number |
20820024
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
ISHIDA Shin-ichiro Osaka University, 人文科学研究科, 准教授 (10506306)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2009
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| Keywords | 法人類学 / ケニア / オルタナティブ・ジャスティス / 平和 / 多元的法体制 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study based on an ethnographic research in Kenya focuses on the challenges and possibilities of "alternative justice" approaches in the Mount Kenyan Region, and then proceeds to discuss alternative justice as a comprehensive approach bridges across anthropology, legal studies and peace research, apart from the official laws and judicial systems that hearken back to the colonial period. Such justice should not be reduced to technical justice in which the purpose is to resolve individual disputes and establish settlements. This study shows that the broadly defined justice, whose ultimate goal is a fair society in which both the trust in the society and the accountability of the society is realized (in such justice, the 'alternative' demands social reform in a broad sense), is in an urgent need for development in modern Kenya, where a serious political conflict erupted involving the results of the presidential election returns.
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