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This article examines the long-standing civil war in northern Uganda, in part seeing the conflict there as a product of the country's colonial legacy which drew very different ethnicities together under a single government, but also looking at a number of other causal factors. Considerable attention is given to the peace-making process and the reasons it has thus far been unsuccessful. Adapted from the source document.

The book analyses the two decades of the brutal civil war of northern Uganda. The author modified Lederach's peacebuilding framework to include peacemaking to bring out the argument that women and men make significant contributions to the peace processes and point out women's position as top leadership actors. The book uncovers the under-emphasised role of women in peacemaking and building. From grassroots to national level, women were found to have organised themselves and assumed roles as advocates, negotiators and mobilisers. The actions by women became evident at the stalemated Juba peace talks when women presented the Peace Torch to the peace negotiating teams who on the occasion shook hands for the first time and peace was ushered in. Their initiatives and non-violent actions offer lessons to resolve civil conflicts in Africa. The book recommends that women should undergo relevant training in times of peace as this would make them more effective in times of need

Uganda faces major challenges to ensure the continuity and sustainability of treatment programmes for IDPs returning home. Adapted from the source document.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in northern Uganda, I argue that psychiatric notions of suffering brought into the region by humanitarian intervention programs interact with local concepts of suffering (based in spirit-idioms) in two ways: In some cases, the diagnostic notion of PTSD and its vernacular counterpart "trauma" psychologize the local cosmology, transforming local spirit concepts from social or moral categories, to psychological ones. In other cases, psychiatric discourses hinged around "trauma" become spiritualized or enchanted, where the concept of trauma becomes usurped by and part of local cosmology. In an attempt to understand these processes, I suggest understanding concepts of suffering through their use in social practice and based on pragmatist epistemology. If viewed as a pragmatist concepts, I argue, it becomes possible to understand the social life of concepts of suffering (such as "trauma") when they become globalized and negotiated in new contexts and social practices.

Uganda, as a territorial state, is the "child" of the late nineteenth century European expansionist violence. Since the construction and consolidation of the despotically strong but infrastructurally weak state, the country has witnessed intense political violence, gross violations of human rights, destruction of property, internal displacement and refugee migrations. Today, Acholiland in northern Uganda is ravaged by a genocidal war, internaI displacement, refugee migrations, humanitarian disaster and other forms of systematic violations of human rights. Yet, these crises have not received adequate attention from scholars, policymakers, human rights organizations and the rest of the international community. What are the causes of the crises? Why do the crises persist? Who are the protagonists? What are the effects of the crises on the society? Why has the international community failed to respond to the genocide and humanitarian disaster? These are sorne of the questions this article will attempt to address. ; L'Ouganda, comme entité territoriale, est l'« enfant » de la violence expansionniste européenne de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. Depuis la constitution d'un état, fort en terme de prise despotique, mais faible en terme d'organisation infrastructurelle, ce pays a été le théâtre de violences politiques intenses, de patentes et directes violations des droits humains, de destructions, de déplacements internes et de migrations de réfugiés. Aujourd'hui, l'Acholiland, situé au nord de l'Ouganda, est ravagé par une guerre entrainant un génocide, des déplacements internes, la migration de réfugiés, le désastre humanitaire et une multitude de formes violations systématiques des droits humains. Ces crises multiples n'ont pourtant pas encore vraiment attiré l'attention des universitaires, des décideurs, des organisations humanitaires et du reste de la communauté internationale. Quelles sont les causes de ces crises? Pourquoi se perpétuent-elles? Qui en sont les protagonistes. Quels sont les effets de ces crises sur ...

The policy brief is a deliverable from the project "Protection of Civilians. From Principles to Practice", funded by the Norwegian Research Council. This project is associated with the collaborative Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) – www.humanitarianstudies.no ; The instituted order of humanitarianism is both changing and challenged by shifting circumstances in the area in which humanitarian organisations operate. This article addresses the transition between humanitarian action and development aid in Northern Uganda, a transition that was driven by and large by the host government's ambition to reassert its humanitarian sovereignty in the area, enabled by its discursive recast of the situation from one of crisis to one of recovery and development. This recast happened in spite of the persistent humanitarian sufferings and needs in the post-conflict area. Yet, it drove humanitarian donors and organisations to reorient their work. While some withdrew, others moved into more development oriented aid, showing organisational malleability and that the humanitarian principles are losing their regulatory hold over humanitarian action. In response to the transition, some originations payed heed to the sanctity of the humanitarian principles fearing jeopardising the humanitarian space, while other took a pragmatic stance to continue assist the civilians regardless how the situation was being portrayed. Hence, this article, demonstrating the formation of a humanitarian—development nexus, speaks to the wider debates about the relationship between humanitarian principles and pragmatic approaches and the evolving humanitarian mission creep – all central to general debates about the nature and future of humanitarianism.

What are the impacts of war on the participants, and do they vary by gender? Are ex-combatants damaged pariahs who threaten social stability, as some fear? Existing theory and evidence are both inconclusive and focused on males. New data and a tragic natural quasi-experiment in Uganda allow us to estimate the impacts of war on both genders, and assess how war experiences affect reintegration success. As expected, violence drives social and psychological problems, especially among females. Unexpectedly, however, most women returning from armed groups reintegrate socially and are resilient. Partly for this reason, postconflict hostility is low. Theories that war conditions youth into violence find little support. Finally, the findings confirm a human capital view of recruitment: economic gaps are driven by time away from civilian education and labor markets. Unlike males, however, females have few civilian opportunities and so they see little adverse economic impact of recruitment.