KPTJ

On December 27th last year, 20 Kenyan activists held an emergency meeting in Nairobi to plan a response to the civil coup we had witnessed the day before.

That meeting was the genesis of Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice, a coalition of over 30 Kenyan and East African legal, human rights, and governance organizations, together with ordinary Kenyans and friends of Kenya.

KPTJ maintains that there can be no peace without justice - political, economic, and social - for all Kenyans. Justice requires that we face the truth of our history, and of the 2007 election, to address the deep chasms and inequities in Kenyan society.

During the post-election crisis, KPTJ generated vital professional analysis, backed by verified data, of the electoral fraud and ensuing country-wide violence.

KPTJ's reasoned position statements were used by the UN, EU, US State Department, Senate, and Congress, and AU, to bring the Kibaki camp to the negotiating table. KPTJ also mobilized progressives within Kenya, the Kenyan Diaspora, and the Pan-African movement, to actively campaign for a just resolution to the crisis.

Throughout 2008, KPTJ has been central to the monitoring, implementation and enforcement of the mediation agreement. My work as a Kenyan activist is firmly grounded in KPTJ's analysis and framing.

You can read KPTJ reports and statements here.