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DR PAUL KANYINKE OLE SENA

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LECTURER
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Phone Number
+254725288402
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Law
Directorate / Dept
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC LAW
SUMMARY

Dr. Sena is lecturer at the Faculty of Law and holds a Doctorate in Law from the University of Arizona, USA. He is the Director of Cape Town-based Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (www.ipacc.org.za), a network of 135 indigenous peoples organizations in 22 countries in Africa. He has served as a member and first African Chairperson of the United Nation’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and also as a Member of the African Commission Working Group on Indigenous Populations besides other international organizations. He serves in several advisory boards including the Cambridge University Press. He does consultancies for organizations such as the World Bank, IFAD, UNREDD, IUCN, Kenya Land Alliance etc. He has excellent oral and written communication skills and very broad minded as result of travel to over 130 countries and having lived in Africa, Asia and America. Dr. Sena is also a livestock keeper and transporter. He comes from Ololulunga in Narok County.  

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
  1. Doctorate in Juridical Sciences – 2016, University of Arizona USA
  2. Masters in Law (LLM)  - 2013, University of Arizona, USA
  3. Bachelors of Law, 2002 – University of Mysore, India
  4. Bachelors of Academic Laws, 2000 – University of Mysore, India 
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
  • Human rights law
  • Environmental law
  • Renewable energy law
  • Intellectual property law
  • Regional integration 
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
  1. 2018 - Certified Professional Mediator - Mediation Training Institute International
  2. 2015 - Certificate in Traditional Knowledge  Protection and Management - World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),  Switzerland
  3. 2014 - Certificate in Energy and Mineral  Development in Indian Country - Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation,  Colorado, USA
  4. 2009 - Diploma in International Environmental  Law Making - University of Joensuu, Finland in Partnership with  UNEP.
  5. 2006 - Diploma in Human Rights Monitoring - Human Rights Educators Association, USA
  6. 2006 - Certificate in Indigenous Peoples in  International System - International Training Centre for Indigenous  Peoples, Greenland
  7. 2005 - Diploma in Conflict Resolution and  Preventative Diplomacy - UN Institute of Training and Research,  Switzerland.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE
  1. August 2015 – Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Egerton University
  2. April 2008 – Director, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee, South Africa
  3. May 2015 – March 2018  - Kenya Advocacy Officer, Minority Rights Group International, UK. 
KEY PROJECTS

On going and recently completed projects 

  1. Study on the situation of indigenous peoples/miorities communities in Eastern Africa for the World Bank. To be completed by June 30th. 
  2. Study on the Economic opportunities and challenges for women in the artisnal mining sector for Kenya Land Alliance. To be completed by July 30. 
  3. Study on the status. of Health and Education among Indigenous/Minorities in Kenya for Minority Rights Group International and Ogiek Peoples Development Program. 
  4. Capacity building of communities on the impacts of Oil fracking in the Okavango Delta (Angola, Namibia and Botswana). This program runs till 2024. 
  5. Strengthening community structures through mediation post Alexor Ltd v. Richsterveld community case in Northern Cape, South Africa. 
  6. Strengthening the Hunter Gatherer Form in Kenya in partnership with the Ogiek Peoples Development Program. 
  7. Early warning and commuity engagement in Environmental conservation in the Congo Basin (DRC, Rep of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Burundi)
  8. Indigenous women program in West Africa (Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Indigenous peoples rights
  • Artisanal mining
  • Environmental laws
  • Intellectual property
  • Governance issues
  • Laws and policies
  • Regional integration
  • Foreign direct investments  
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Journals

  1. Sena, Kanyinke. “Carbon credit schemes and indigenous peoples in Kenya.” 32 Ariz. J. Int'l &  Comp. L. [i] (2015) 
  2. Sena, K. "Kenya: Criminalizing Pastoralists." World Policy Journal, vol. 34 no. 2, 2017, pp. 4- 5. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/663642

Co-authorships

  1. Jérémie Gilbert & Kanyinke Sena (2018) Litigating indigenous peoples’ cultural rights: Comparative analysis of Kenya and Uganda, African Studies, 77:2, 204-222, DOI: 10.1080/00020184.2018.1452855
  2. Paul Kanyinke Sena and Busalile Jack Mwimali (2015) Carbon Credit Schemes in Foreign Direct Investments in Kenya: Prospects and challenges, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Law Journal Vol 1 (2015) available at http://www.jkuat.ac.ke/schools/law/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/JKUAT-Journal-Volume-2015.pdf 

Book Chapter 

  1. Sena, Kanyinke. “Indigenous Peoples and Access to remedies in the context of the LAPSSET Corridor, Kenya.” Book Chapter. Doyle C. (ed.) Business and Human Rights: Indigenous Peoples’ Experiences with Access to Remedy. Case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America (Chiang Mai, Madrid, Copenhagen: AIPP, Almáciga, IWGIA, 2015). Pp 233-254 

Reviews 

  1. Manuscript Number: CRSUST-D-20-00141, Traditional Knowledge and Institutions for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation in Ethiopia, March 2021, for online journal Current Research in Environmental Sustainability https://www.journals.elsevier.com/current-research-in-environmental-sustainability/ 
  2. FPIC Guide: Insights from the FPIC Solutions Dialogue, 2021 . Kennedy, T., Martin, T., Lee, M., and D’Esposito, S. RESOLVE, March 2021 
  3. Review of 7 articles for the upcoming Faculty of Law journal, March 2021 
  4. Renewable Energy Projects and Indigenous Peoples in Kenya, December 2020 for Ogiek Peoples Development Program 

Others 

  1. Report on the State of Health and Education Among Minority and Indigenous Communities in Kenya, August 2020. Available at https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Fact-Finding-report-final-1.pdf 
  2. RECOGNISING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' LAND INTERESTS CRITICAL FOR PEOPLE AND NATURE, June 2020 available at https://livingplanet.panda.org/voices/recognising-indigenous-peoples-land-interests-critical-for-people-nature 
  3. Best Practice in Community Engagement in Energy Projects: case studies from  Tanzania, Kenya and Haiti. Available at https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/best-practice-in-community-engagement-in-energy-projects-case-studies-from-kenya-tanzania-haiti/ 
  4. Indigenous Women And the Lapsset Corridor in Laikipia and Isiolo Counties, 2015 available at https://namati.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/SWT-Research-on-Indigenous-Women-Impact-of-LAPSSET-Corridor-2015.pdf 
  5. Sena, Kanyinke. “Renewable energy projects and the rights of marginalised/indigenous  communities in Kenya.” International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs, Report 21, November  2015 
CONFERENCES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS
  1. Kanyinke has presented and/or spoken in over 100 physical and online meetings. 
TEACHING AREAS
  • History and theories of human rights
  • Kenya and comparative human rights law and practice
  • Regional Human Rights
  • UN human Rights systems
  • Intellectual property law
  • East African Community law
  • Environmental and Agricultural Law 
POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION
PhD. LEVEL :
  1.  Amanda Bielewaski: Documenting Water Insecurity and Water-Related Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Among Rural Maasai Indigenous Communities in Kenya and Tanzania’s Mara River Basin: A Participatory Action Research Mixed-Method Ethnoecological Study to Support Future Water Advocacy Downstream of the Mau Forest Water Tower." 
OTHER SOCIETIES
  1. 2018 - Chair – Indigenous Peoples – World Commission on Environmental Law
  2. 2017 - Co-chair – IUCN CEESP-SPICEH
  3. 2012 - Honorary Member – ICCA Consortium
  4. 2020 - Advisory Board member – Indigenous Peoples Rights International
  5. 2020 - Advisory Board Member – Cambridge University Press upcoming publication on Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research
  6. 2016 – 2019 - Member, African Commission Working Group on Indigenous Populations/communities
  7. 2010-2013 – Member and Chairperson, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
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