Dr. Steve Wakhu Publications

Publications in Journals:

1. Wanyonyi, E., Wakhu, S., & Kanyingi, B. (2026). Public perceptions of the Kenyan-led UN security mission to Haiti: A comparative study of Kenyan and Haitian views. Global Change, Peace & Security, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2026.2653745
2. Kirangu, C. N., Khaemba, S. W., & Khisa Sitati, G. (2026). Organised crime: The role of education and unemployment. Global Change, Peace & Security, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2026.2687035
3.    Khaemba, S. W. (2026). Criminal entanglements: a social network analysis of crimes against forest ecosystems in Kenya. Crime, Law and Social Change, 84(1), 56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-026-10295-0
4. Mburuki, J., Wakhu, S., & Sitati, G. (2026). The impact of terrorism on education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review of global evidence, 2010–2025. Global Change, Peace & Security, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2025.2595569
5. Wakhu, S. (2025). "From Human Rights to Human Security." The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South. Ed. Siddharth Tripathi and Solveig Richter. New York, London, Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 461–478. Bloomsbury Handbooks. Bloomsbury Collections. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9798881842390&tocid=b-9798881842390-chapter23&st=From+Human+Rights+to+Human+Security
6. Noor, H., Wakhu, S. (2025). "Mobilising Grievances: Postcolonial Legacies of Terrorism in Africa. The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South. Ed. Siddharth Tripathi and Solveig Richter New York London Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 461–478. Bloomsbury Handbooks. Bloomsbury Collections. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9798881842390&tocid=b-9798881842390-chapter15&st=Mobilising+Grievances%3A+Postcolonial+Legacies+of+Terrorism+in+Africa
7. Khaemba, S. W. (2025). The role of social enterprise in preventing and countering violent extremism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEPP-06-2024-0106
8. Njiru, D. G., Kiboro, C., Omboto, J. O., & Wakhu, S. (2025). The Evolving Nature of Cargo Theft at Kilindini Harbour, Mombasa-Kenya Between the Year 2020 and 2024. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), 9(08), 2652-2664. https://doi.org/https://dx.doi.org/10.47772/IJRISS.2025.908000216
9. Mwaura, H. K., Wakhu, S., & Kanyingi, B. (2025). The effects of cattle rustling on children’s educational outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Global Change, Peace & Security, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2025.2542737
10. Njiru, D. G., Kiboro, C., Omboto, J. O., & Wakhu, S. (2025).Trends and Patterns of Cargo Theft and Implications on Seaport Security. International Journal of Research in Social Science and Humanities (IJRSS) ISSN: 2582-6220, DOI: 10.47505/IJRSS, 6(8), 35-41.https://doi.org/10.47505/IJRSS.2025.8.5
11. Gitiha, R. W., Rugano, P., Wakhu, S., & Muriithi, C. G. (2024).Students’ perceptions towards the uptake of educational technologies in Christian Religious Education. Cogent Education, 11(1), 2310968. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2024.2310968
12. Yousaf, F., & Wakhu, S. (2020).Security in the ‘Periphery’of post-colonial states: analysing Pakistan’s ‘tribal’Pashtuns and Kenyan-Somalis. Social Identities, 26(4), 515-532. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2020.1776599

 Books/Book Chapters Published

1. Kemmerling, A., Richter, S., Robiatti, R, (eds.) Populism and a New Age of International Fragility: Seeking Policy Innovations 40 Years After the Brandt Report. Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt, 2020, pp. 53 –75. https://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/einrichtung/willy-brandt-school/Brandt_School_Documents/Kemmerling__Richter__and_Robiatti_-_Populism_and_a_New_Age_of_International_Fragility.pdf
2. Khaemba, S. (2020). Terrorism and Conditions for Human Rights in Counter- terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Doctoral dissertation).
3. Steve Wakhu (2012). Handbook on How to Write a Good Pre-sentence Report: A Practical Guide for Professionals Working in the Criminal Justice System. Saarbrücken. ISBN: 978-3-659-16184-1