The Kenya Riots and the Tragedies of Peace

For those who don't know this, I've been working on a peace model for the last few years, using a number of different theoretical concepts in economics, communication theory and political science. I'm getting ready to start writing it up, and I'm working on it with Kat, but one thing still manages to evade me, and that's the problem that comes from long-standing ethnic rivalries that cross generational borders.

I mean, my theory argues that we can have future peaceful prospects over generations, but how to overcome something like Kenya where people are killing people over hostilities that exist from periods before people were even born. I saw this with a lot of the central European ethnic hostilities of the last century, and unfortunately, I'm still having trouble figuring out how to fix this particular part of the problem.

I'm starting to believe that part of the problem is that scientists tend to look at these types of conflicts as something "they" do, that if only "they" were instructed properly in how to get along with others, everything would work out okay. And I think that model stinks badly, which is why I need to find some type of compensating factor that is innovative, yet capable of working in most situations of like nature.

Unfortunately, until I come across the answer to this one, my theory is still in its infancy stage, useless because people still hold generational grudges.

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