Publication

This paper is a detailed narrative account of the efforts to mediate the deadly post-election dispute in Kenya in early 2008. This story remains timely, more than a year after the completion of the able mediation efforts led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, for two primary reasons. One, the parties still have not fulfilled all of the commitments undertaken at that time, and the possibility of a return to violent confrontation remains all too real. As the mediators would be the first to acknowledge, the hard work in Kenya has just begun.