Our work
Uganda programme resources
Audio and video resources
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The 1995 Atiak massacre, Constance Abwoyo and Simon Olweny Social Communications Department, Caritas Gulu, 2005. A 30-minute video of the hearings with displaced people living in Atiak camp, where victims spoke publicly about the 1995 massacre for the first time. It marks the first step of our work with partners to develop local truth-telling processes. For more information contact uganda@c-r.org
A survivor of the 1995 Atiak massacre shares his story for the first time during a 10-year commemoration ceremony
- Local voices on justice (2006). A 20 minute video by Constance Abwoyo and Simon Olweny of the Social Communications Department of Gulu Archdiocese. The video looks at local attitudes to the intervention of the International Criminal Court in northern Uganda, and local approaches to justice. Read more about the project and quotes from the video. For more information contact uganda@c-r.org
- Local voices on decongestion and return of internally displaced people in Northern Uganda (2007) was produced by the Social Communications Department of Gulu Archdiocese, Uganda. The video looks at local attitudes towards moving people from the large camps for internally displaced people to the smaller decongestion camps closer to their original homesteads. Watch the film or read the transcript.
Research and analysis
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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 has prompted 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.
Former combatants of the Lord's Resistance Army are welcomed back into their communities
- 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 is being 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.
Related Accord publications
- Peace by piece: addressing Sudan’s conflicts (Accord issue 18) examines some of the causes of the country’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.