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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"northern Uganda"”.
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Children, youth and transitional justice in Northern Uganda
… end of the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict in northern Uganda, efforts of dealing with the violent past and paving the way for a more just, peaceful future are now taking shape in Uganda and especially the northern region. Existing frameworks and proposals for transitional justice emphasize …
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Youth participation in peacebuilding in post-conflict northern Uganda
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration – Peace Studies, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2023. .
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Schooling for conflict transformation : a case study from Northern Uganda
… of curriculum in seven schools in a district in northern Uganda that is emerging from a twenty-year civil war. The curriculum of four primary schools, two secondary schools, one special school and one teacher training college was studied over a three-month period. A structure of knowledge, skills …
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NGO Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda: Interrogating Liberal Peace from the Ground
… these assertions, I conducted field research in northern Uganda, which up to 2006 had experienced 22 years of conflict between the Lord¿s Resistance Army (LRA) and Government of Uganda (GOU). I contend in my findings that while to some extent the generalized observations made by liberal peace …
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The Politics of Triage: International Aid and AIDS Care in Northern Uganda
Uganda has been considered an AIDS success story since the late 1990s when prevalence rates decreased around the country. Recognizing Uganda’s unique AIDS response, this thesis seeks to analyze HIV/AIDS in Uganda and challenges normative understandings of Uganda’s ‘success’, specifically, in …
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Exploring feminist notions of peacebuilding: experiences of women activists in Northern Uganda
This qualitative study was undertaken in Northern Uganda, specifically in the districts of Gulu, Lira, and Kitgum. The researcher spent a total of six months collecting field data (over a period of 2 years) from key members of community-based peacebuilding groups as well as from the groups' …
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Expectations of peace: documentation, memorialization, and construction of the archive in northern Uganda
… curate historical narratives in contemporary northern Uganda since the collapse of the Juba peace talks in 2008. Taking the collapse of political settlement as my starting point while staying attuned to the history of humanitarian activity in the region more broadly, I address how each of …
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Assessment of hospital-based adult triage at emergency receiving areas in hospitals in Northern Uganda
… have been made to introduce paediatric triage in Uganda, such as Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment Plus (ETAT+), there is no unified adult triage system being used in Uganda, and it is not clear if hospitals have local protocols being used in each setting. There are limited data on adult …
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Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda: An Analysis of the Challenges and Opportunities for Reintegration and Rehabilitation.
… by the Lord¿s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda pricked the conscience of humanity. The suffering of the people in northern Uganda was described by Jan Egeland, the former United Nations Under- Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs, as ¿the biggest forgotten humanitarian crisis in …
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Sustaining the peace in northern Uganda: exploring the potential for community participation in conflict resolution processes
… 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 (13) focus …
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Adolescents' experiences of care during childbirth in health facilities in rural Northern Uganda: a mixed-methods study
… during childbirth in health facilities in rural northern Uganda and how their perceptions influenced their satisfaction with care and future childbearing intentions (intentions to give birth, give birth in the same facility, and recommend the same facility to a sister or friend), and explored the …
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Becoming Human Through the Communalization of Trauma and Healing: Experiences of Support Among Former Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda
… to fight by the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda. These data guided this study's qualitative inquiry of 20 former child soldiers currently living in Northern Uganda. While specific results related to the quantitative and qualitative approaches are provided in Chapter 4, given the …
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An analytical study of the reintegration experience of the formerly abducted children in Gulu, Northern Uganda: A human security perspective.
The Northern region of Uganda has been plagued by violent conflict for over two decades. The Lord¿s Resistance Army (LRA) has been waging war against the current government of Uganda under the leadership of President Museveni. The Acholi community resident in the North of Uganda has been most …
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Maternal Exposure to Violence and Child Malnutrition in LMICs: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study in Conflict-Affected Northern Uganda
… Population-Based Study in Conflict-Affected Northern Uganda Background: Violence against women by an intimate partner is a serious human rights and public health concern, especially in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Some of the most prevalent rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) …
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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
… 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 resistance to state enclosure of …
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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
… relief to development in post-conflict northern Uganda. Internal displacement has undoubtedly become the epicenter of focus for all development actors in the region and as a result of this, development has hinged upon people leaving internal displacement camps and returning home. …
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Growing up in times of change: Adolescents in post-conflict northern Uganda. A long-term intergenerational study on the effect of family violence on adolescent psychopathological development and future expectations after war
… a socio-ecological framework in a sample of northern Ugandan youths both transversely and longitudinally over a period of six years after civil war. The aim of the first manuscript was the adaptation and development of an instrument to assess adolescent future expectations for the Ugandan …
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Gender Biases and Armed Conflict: Assessing the Reintegration Experience of Women from the LRA
… from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. In seeking to explain this outcome for ex-LRA women in comparison to women who did not serve in the LRA, and to men who returned from the force as well, this thesis raises the question: why are women who are returning from the LRA …
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Primary Schooling as Protective and Endangering: The Case of Education in War-Affected Gulu District
… study of primary schooling in Gulu District in Northern Uganda, this study explores the patterns and mechanisms which characterize and link education and conflict.</p>
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