This book aims to contribute to the subject of elections and conflicts and how they influence each other. The Tana delta in Kenya frequently sees conflicts over natural resources which occasionally claim lives or even end in severe violence. On 4th March 2013 Kenya held transitional elections which introduced a devolved government. During the election campaigning periode almost 200 people died in ethnic clashes. "Behind the Worriors Spear" identifies factors which contributed to the clashes and analyses the root cause of natural resource conflicts in the Tana delta. It analyses how the...