East and Central Africa programme resources
Research and analysis
Civilian defence units near the border of Southern Sudan and DR Congo, March 09
Abandoned tanks in Aru-Kubi, which was renamed by the LRA as New Gulu or Kony Village, after LRA leader Joseph Kony
Former combatants from the Lord's Resistance Army are welcomed back into their communities.
- Cross-border trade: fuelling conflict or building peace? An exploration of cross-border trade between Uganda and Southern Sudan. Graham Carrington, Conciliation Resources, September 2009. This study looks at how trade policy and practice along the Uganda-Sudan border is contributing to peacebuilding and recovery in the region and includes recommendations for urgent changes.
- After Operation Lightning Thunder : protecting communities and building peace. Mareike Schomerus, Kennedy Tumutegyereize, Conciliation Resources, April 2009. This report follows up Perilous border (below) and looks at the situation in border areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Southern Sudan. It reflects the views of civilians, government and army officials toward recent military operations and on the Ugandan government and Lord’s Resistance Army peace process.
- Perilous border: Sudanese communities affected by conflict on
the Sudan-Uganda border.
Mareike Schomerus, Conciliation Resources, November 2008. This study looks at how decades of conflict by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and other armed groups has affected local people and considers some of the profound challenges for peacebuilding and statebuilding in Southern Sudan's border areas.
- Coming
home: Analysis of the ‘push and pull’ factors affecting
LRA commanders returning to civilian life in northern Uganda, Conciliation
Resources and Quaker Peace and Social Witness, 2006. An understanding
of what prompts commanders to return to their communities is a useful
tool to inform local and international peacebuilding. This is being
used by our local partners to help design work on the ground.
- Dealing with the past: experiences of transitional justice, truth and reconciliation processes after periods of violent conflict in Africa’, Anika May, Conciliation Resources, 2005. This review of justice, truth and reconciliation approaches in Africa was used in discussions with our partners to help inform the development of local justice mechanisms.
- Falling through
the net: returning adult, ex-combatants in northern Uganda. Conciliation
Resources in collaboration with Human Rights Focus (HURIFO) Gulu,
September 2004. This report analyses the needs of abductees who have
returned from the LRA as adults. It was launched at a workshop in
Gulu for practitioners.
Audio and video resources
- Monitoring the return of internally displaced people (IDPs) in northern Uganda (2008) was produced by the Social Communications Department of Gulu Archdiocese, Uganda. This 20-minute video gives an update on challenges facing people leaving the large IDP camps for smaller resettlement camps or their original homesteads. Watch the film or read the transcript.
- Local voices on 'decongestion' and the return of internally
displaced people in northern Uganda (2007) was produced
by the Social Communications Department of Gulu Archdiocese.
This 15-minute video looks at local attitudes towards moving
people from the large camps for internally displaced people to the
smaller resettlement camps closer to their original homesteads. Watch
the film or read the transcript.
- Local voices on justice (2006) A 20-minute video
by the Social Communications Department
of Gulu Archdiocese. The video looks at local attitudes to the intervention
by the International Criminal Court in northern Uganda, and local approaches
to justice. Read more about the project
and quotes from the video.
A survivor of the 1995 Atiak massacre shares his story for the first time during a 10-year commemoration ceremony.
- The 1995 Atiak massacre (2005) Constance Abwoyo and Simon Olweny, Social Communications Department, Caritas Gulu. A 30-minute video of hearings with people living in Atiak displaced camp, where victims spoke publicly about the 1995 massacre for the first time. It marked the first step of our work with partners to develop local truth-telling processes. For more information contact uganda@c-r.org
Related Accord publications
- Peace by piece:
addressing Sudan’s conflicts (Accord issue 18) examines
some of the causes of Sudan's conflicts and its recent peacemaking
experiences, and asks what remains to be done to build a comprehensive
peace. Available in English and Arabic with accompanying policy briefing
paper. Edited by Mark Simmons and Peter Dixon, Conciliation Resources,
2006.
- Protracted conflict, elusive peace: initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda (Accord issue 11). Okello Lucima, Conciliation Resources and Kacoke Madit, 2002
- Choosing to engage: armed groups and peace processes (Accord issue 16), edited by Robert Ricigliano, Conciliation Resources, 2005
Other resources
- Justice and Peace News, newsletter of the Justice and Peace Commission of Gulu Archdiocese. Email jpcgulu@infocom.co.ug to subscribe. Please note that CR is not responsible for the contents or editing of this newsletter.
- JPC Newsletter January - March 2008 (448 kb pdf)
- JPC Newsletter May 2008 (625kb pdf)
- JPC Newsletter June 2008 (778kb pdf)
- JPC Newsletter July 2008 (1 mb pdf)
