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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Acholi"”.
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How did governance in Acholi dovetail with violence?
… between two forms of community governance in Acholiland from 1898 to 2010, locating itself within Peace Studies. One form, kaka, was “traditional”, featuring varied forms of “facultative mutualisms” among two or more gangi agnates – with one gang as dominant in the realm. Gangi were …
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How did governance in Acholi dovetail with violence?
… between two forms of community governance in Acholiland from 1898 to 2010, locating itself within Peace Studies. One form, kaka, was “traditional”, featuring varied forms of “facultative mutualisms” among two or more gangi agnates – with one gang as dominant in the realm. Gangi were …
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Holding on: gender relations, food security and women’s options and strategies for maintaining access to land in the Acholi region of Uganda
… post-conflict villages of Adunu and Kom in the Acholi region of northern Uganda. It argues that a woman’s maintained access to customary land within these villages is determined not only by her sex and by provisions within Acholi customary law, but also by her marital and parental status as …
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The Impetus For Transitions From Relief to Development In Post-Conflict Environments: Food Security, Land Access, and Livelihood Reconstruction Among the Acholi of Northern Uganda
… created <em>further</em> obstacles for the Acholi people. In very few instances were indigenous knowledges or local perspectives considered by these external actors in the formation and implementation of their projects.</p> <p>In order for development projects to work, they must be based on …
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Sustaining the peace in northern Uganda: exploring the potential for community participation in conflict resolution processes
… an exploratory, qualitative research design. The Acholi region of Northern Uganda was targeted for this case study because of its history as a conflict affected region. The study involved twenty-six (26) key informants and one hundred and sixty-nine (169) participants who were involved in thirteen …
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The Myth of the Universal User. Pursuing a Cultural Variable in ICT Design for Conflict Management through Quantitative Analysis: Implications from a Ugandan Case Study.
… management more broadly. Fieldwork from the Acholi region of Uganda supported the conclusion that current ICT tools used in conflict management contexts fundamentally distort the narratives they were designed to collect at a cognitive level. Findings from this research also presented avenues …
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Expectations of peace: documentation, memorialization, and construction of the archive in northern Uganda
… by peace. Juxtaposing the lived experiences of Acholi men and women against the expectation that documenting these experiences will bring lasting peace to the region provokes new questions about the contingencies of documentary practices and the indeterminacy of their subsequent uses.</p>
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An analytical study of the reintegration experience of the formerly abducted children in Gulu, Northern Uganda: A human security perspective.
… under the leadership of President Museveni. The Acholi community resident in the North of Uganda has been most affected by this war. In recent years however Northern Uganda has enjoyed relative calm following an agreement for the cessation of hostilities between the LRA and the government to …
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"We are Refugees in Our Own Homeland": Land Dispossession and Resettlement Challenges in Post-Conflict Teso, Uganda
… instance, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), an Acholi-based insurgent group, infiltrated Amuria and Soroti districts in 2003, but did not seriously impact other districts. People from parishes in Teso that directly border the predominantly pastoralist region of Karamoja to the north have …
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Resistance to state-driven land expropriation in northern Uganda: Counter-hegemonic imagination and the reconstruction of identity, authority, territory, and property
… to state-driven land expropriation in the Acholi-Madi border region of northern Uganda. Based on a two-year period of archival inquiry, interviews, activist research and participant observation, the dissertation examines the case of Apaa, where a large-scale struggle entangles peasant …
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Assessment of hospital-based adult triage at emergency receiving areas in hospitals in Northern Uganda
… number generator, we randomly selected the Acholi sub-region for the study. The study was conducted in 6 of the 7 hospitals in the region - one hospital declined to grant permission for the research. It was a written questionnaire survey under supervision of the investigator. In each …