Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: A+, University of Miami (Department of International Studies), course: Conflict in the Middle East and Africa, language: English, abstract: An analysis of the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya, employing the framework of the Copenhagen theory of Securitization to explain the causes of conflict. There is a focus on the three issues of youth, land and unemployment, as well as ethnicity and "otherness".