2013 - present
Logo created by Dr Bernard Mugwima, JKUAT University, Nairobi, Kenya
Heritage Conservation and Human Rights Research Network (HCHR) workshop, 31st January 2014, British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) and French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA), Nairobi.
From left to right: Paul Opondo, Felix Kiruthu, Parita Shah, Okello Benter,Dominic Gitau, Daniel Kipkorir, Gilbert Wafula, Anne-Marie Deisser,Njeru Murithi, Francis Mwaura, Brenda Kamande, Teckla Muthoro, Lydia Muthuma, Bernard Mugwima (Deisser 2014)
The conservation of natural and cultural heritage in Kenya presents a cross-cultural perspective. This necessitates critical analyses of the practices and ethics that guide the conservation of natural heritage, moveable cultural artefacts, intangible heritage, buildings, monuments and cultural landscapes. The HCHR Network seeks to provide insights into the concepts, theories, mechanisms and strategies that enable sustainable practices in the conservation of heritage in Kenya in the line of human rights ethics and legal instruments.
The network of researchers and practitioners are concerned with assessing, modifying, and/or integrating sustainable practices into their particular settings. They aim to work through cross-dsciplinary themes and concepts of diverse and dynamic fields of heritage conservation in Kenya. One of the network's key objective is to identify and analyse the rationale for thorough understanding of reciprocal codes of ethics and cross-disciplinary approaches in the conservation of natural and cultural heritage, the socio-cultural, economic and political underpinnings of conservation problems and potential solutions.
Call for book chapter contribution (Deisser 2013)