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How Health Workers Can Prevent Conflict

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Mark Leon Goldberg
Feb 18, 2020
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Community Health Workers can promote peace and conflict resolution. That is the conclusion that sociologist Dr. Roseanne Njiru reaches from ground breaking research conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Njiru conducted fieldwork in marginalized communities, or urban slums, to find that health workers who are from these communities can play important roles beyond health. Specifically, she found that these health workers are preventing conflict at the local level--often in ways invisible to outsiders.

Dr. Njiru is on the Global Dispatches podcast to discuss her research into the link between community health workers and conflict prevention.

This episode is part of a series of episodes supported in part from a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to feature African perspectives on peace and security issues in Africa.

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