Exploring Conflict Management and the Environment: The Kenyan Journey

Abstract

This paper is meant to capture the main themes that have featured in Kariuki Muigua’s work, his contribution to the academia, policy and legal development in Kenya. It traces the running thread through his work with the aim of demonstrating that conflict management and environmental matters are not linear subjects and should be treated as such as they impact on every sphere of the human life. The paper is also important in that it traces the jurisprudential development of these themes within the Kenyan framework to show how far we have come as a country in guaranteeing environmental rights and creates an opportunity for the stakeholders in the justice sector and environmental management to reflect on the successes, challenges and the future prospects in ensuring that every Kenyan will access justice and a right to clean and healthy environment.