Since 2008 Kenya has seen the rise of a veritable peace industry, devoted not only to forging post-election peace and reconciliation but also the prevention of renewed violence in 2013.

Critics may say that much of this has been top-down, however, and has not reached  citizens at the grassroots, for whom national peace charters and the work of the National Integration and Cohesion Commission are mere abstractions.

Last Thursday, 14 March, the municipality of The Hague and the Carnegie Foundation held a small press conference in the Peace Palace to announce the programme of festivities for the Peace Palace centenary.