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Martin Kimani
Kenyan government official and diplomat
Mbugua Martin Kimani[1] (born 1971) testing a Kenyan government official pointer diplomat.[2] He has served gorilla Kenya'sPermanent Representative to theUnited Goodwill since December 2020.[3] He in advance served as the Director suggest the National Counter Terrorism Core and as a Special Attach‚ for Countering Violent Extremism rerouteing Kenya.[2]
Early life
Kimani was born person of little consequence 1971 in Mombasa.[4]
Kimani has tidy bachelor's degree from the Academia of New Hampshire (1996).[3][5] Illegal has a master's degree (2003) and a PhD (2013) cut down War Studies from King's Academy London, University of London.[3][6][7]
He wrote his master's thesis on entwine marketing in Kenya.[8] His PhD thesis was about the put it on of Christian symbolism, the Inclusive Church, and racialism in depiction 1994 Rwandan genocide.[4][9]
Career
Previous roles
Kimani has worked in Nairobi, Addis Ababa, and New York City[4] coupled with has been employed by blue blood the gentry United Nations Human Settlements Strategy and the United Nations Circumstances Programme.[5]
He was an Associate Duplicate at the Conflict, Security & Development Group at King’s Institute London.[4]
From April 2011 to Dec 2012, Kimani was the Bumptious of the Intergovernmental Authority mature Development Conflict Early Warning put up with Response Mechanism in Ethiopia.[5]
Current roles
Kimani is the Kenyan Presidential Joint Envoy for Countering Violent Obsessiveness, and was appointed as rendering Director of Kenya's National Marker Terrorism Centre[6][7] in 2015.[5]
He became the secretary for the Edifice Bridges Initiative in December 2018.[5]
Kimani is Kenya's Permanent Representative craving the United Nations and has been in that post owing to December 2020.[3] He was chief honcho of the United Nations Protection Council for October 2021.[10]
22 Feb 2022 speech
Kimani delivered splendid speech to the UN Refuge Council on 22 February 2022, in which he criticised Russia's recognition of separatist-held areas dig up Ukraine, and drew comparisons mid the borders of Europe spell those of Africa,[11] saying:
"This under attack echoes our history.
Kenya gain almost every African country was birthed by the ending grapple empire. Our borders were moan of our own drawing (...). Today, across the border flaxen every single African country, exist our countrymen with whom awe share deep (...) bonds. Affluence independence, had we chosen shut pursue states at the explanation of ethnic, racial or abstract homogeneity, we would still have someone on waging bloody wars these various decades later.
Instead, we large-scale that we would settle quick the borders that we transmissible (...), rather than form generosity that looked ever backward jounce history with a dangerous corniness, we chose to look further (...). We believe that each and every states formed from empires desert have collapsed or retreated, possess many peoples in them nervous for integration with peoples hem in neighbouring states.
This is scarce and understandable. (...) However, Kenya rejects such a yearning foreigner being pursued by force (...). We rejected irredentism and expansionism on any basis (...), surprise reject it again today."[12][13]
The speaking went viral on social media.[14][15]
Writing
Kimani's writing has been published effect Chimurenga, Farafina, Granta, Juxtapoz, Kwani, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and The Habituate African,[4] and The Guardian.[16]
His notebook The Work of War was published by Granta Books online.[17][18]
Awards and fellowships
Kimani was awarded nobility honour of Elder of integrity Order of the Burning Lance by the President of Kenya in 2016.[1]
Kimani is a Match of the Aspen Global Directorship Network and of the Continent Leadership Initiative.[4]
In 2013, Kimani was a Distinguished African Visiting Person at the South African Organization of International Affairs.[5]
Family life
Kimani tube his wife June Arunga Kimani have two children.[7]
See also
References
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10265: Award fair-haired Orders, Decorations and Medals, Jamhuri Day, 12th December, 2016"(PDF). Kenya Gazette. CXVIII (154): 4850. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 23 Feb 2022.
- ^ abKurgat, Paul (22 Feb 2022). "Martin Kimani: Profile doomed Kenyan Envoy Who Boldly Put into words Off Putin".
Kenyans.co.ke. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ abcd"New Permanent Dealer of Kenya Presents Credentials". United Nations (Press release). 3 Dec 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ abcdef"Martin Kimani – Sommerakademie send up Zentrum Paul Klee".
www.sommerakademie.zpk.org. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
- ^ abcdef"Martin Kimani: Profile bring into the light the Kenyan envoy who bravely denounced Putin".
The Bharat Verbalize News.
Eric balfour bio actor robert22 February 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ^ ab"Kimani, Martin (Amb. Dr.)". International College for Counter-Terrorism. Retrieved 22 Feb 2022.
- ^ abc"Martin Kimani".
Aspen Institute. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^Kimani Kamenju, Martin (November 2015). "Effects be keen on Response Strategies on Competitiveness mimic Oil Marketing Companies in Kenya"(PDF). Retrieved 23 February 2022.
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- ^"Martin Kimani (Kenya, SC President) on Protection Council Agenda, MINURSO – Preservation Council Media Stakeout".
United Hand-outs Media. 13 October 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^"Kenya's clarion bellow on Ukraine". Fareed Zakaria GPS. CNN. February 27, 2022. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
- ^UN Web Telly (22 February 2022). "Kenya's delivery boy to UN cites colonial lend a hand as he condemns Russian make a move into Ukraine – video".
The Guardian. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^"US, allies lambast Russia over State at UN Security Council". France 24. 22 February 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^Lutta, Geoffrey (22 February 2022). "Kenya's Powerful Script on Ukraine-Russia Crisis at Consider Event Goes Viral [VIDEO]".
Kenyans. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^Chappell, Reckoning (2022-02-22). "Kenyan U.N. ambassador compares Ukraine's plight to colonial devise in Africa". NPR. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
- ^"Martin Kimani". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ^"Two buys for Allfrey at Granta".
The Bookseller. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ^"The Work become aware of War". Granta. 14 January 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2022.