| Reconciliation Processes in Africa: Uganda |
| This collection of Internet resources includes selected country-specific case study experiences that are helping and/or hindering reconciliation processes in Africa at international, regional, national, and communal levels.Although selective, inclusion of a site by no means constitutes
endorsement by the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Every source listed here was successfully tested before being added to the list. Users, however, should be aware that a successful connection may sometimes require several attempts.
For additional research and bibliographic materials on reconciliation processes in African countries consult the Library's online catalog.
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| ACHOLI RELIGIOUS LEADERS PEACE INITIATIVE (http://www.acholipeace.org/) |
| The site describes the activities of this organization including its Justice and Peace Commission and the Kacoke Madit (KM). The latter “is a non-profit making forum dedicated to identifying and implementing practical initiatives to end the armed conflict in Northern Uganda by peaceful means. It was formed in 1996 by Acholi people of Northern Uganda living in the Diaspora, in response to the escalation of the armed conflict affecting the districts of Kitgum and Gulu. It is now a world-wide network which brings together Acholi communities, groups and organisations working towards restoring peace, and promoting peace-building, reconciliation and development initiatives aimed at ensuring sustainable peace and prosperity.” |
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| BUILDING PEACE IN NORTHERN UGANDA : COSMAS ORYEN LAM (http://www.mcc.org/respub/pon/0012.html) |
| Describing the work of Cosmas Oryen Lam, this essay was published in the Peace Office Newsletter, vol 30 no. 1, January 2000, as part of its Worldwide Peacemaker series. “In the Acholi language, our word for reconciliation is mato afot – literally ‘drinking afot.’ Afot is a tree. This tree has got a bitter heart and when there are two parties that have quarreled or who have had conflict, then mato afot is the climax ceremony that is between me and you. The root of the afot is smashed and put in a vessel. You drink from it and I drink from it. It is very bitter. We swallow the bitterness. We swallow it because we want to restore the relationship.”
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| CHRISTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEACE SERVICE (CHIPS). ANNUAL REPORT, 2000-2001 (http://www.cips.org.uk/reports/report00%5F01.htm) |
| “The Christian International Peace Service (CHIPS), which was invited to bring trust and positive interaction to areas of tension in Uganda over 10 years ago, continues to operate in north-eastern Uganda between the Karamojong and the Iteso, and most especially in Moroto and Katakwi Districts.”
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| The DELEGATION REPORT (http://www.quaker.org/fptp/agli/delegation.htm#uganda) |
| “From January 3 through 23, 1999, a seven member delegation from the Friends Peace Teams Project's African Great Lakes Initiative visited Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. ... The purpose of the mission was to visit Quakers and others involved in peacemaking activities in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, explore African Quakers' participation in peacemaking, reconciliation, and trauma healing and assess the possibility of placing a long-term Peace Team in the area.”
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| The END OF UGANDA'S MYSTIC REBEL? (http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1231/p06s01-woaf.html) |
| From the Christian Science Monitor, December 31, 2004, issue, this article describes the process to welcome the child soldiers to the Acholi communities. “In the local Acholi tribe there's a traditional ceremony in which elders place an egg - the symbol of new life - on the ground. A repentant wrongdoer then steps on the egg. The act symbolizes the opening of a new life. The person is welcomed back into the village family. This and other ceremonies are being used to reintegrate former LRA soldiers, despite their awful acts. Pressured by local leaders, the government also offers legal amnesty to former fighters.”
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| JYAK (http://www.hurinet.or.ug/jyak.html) |
| “Founded by Bishop Nelson Onono Onweng as a peace club in 1988 to change the culture of violence in Uganda. JYAK became a branch of International Fellowship of Reconciliation(IFOR) in 1997, was registered as an NGO in 1991. JYAK started Gulu community vocational school in 1991 and contributed significantly to the creation of the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative (ARLPI) in 1998.”
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| KM E-NEWSLETTER (http://www.km-net.org/e-news/2005/feb05/feb20.htm) |
| The Kacoke Madit (KM) “a non-profit making forum dedicated to identifying and implementing practical initiatives to end the armed conflict in northern Uganda by peaceful means. It seeks to promote peace-building, reconciliation and equitable development efforts aimed at ensuring sustainable peace and prosperity ... This e-newsletter is an advocacy to support KM's work for peace in northern Uganda. KM uses this e-newsletter to tell others about its work, events, publications, and concerns. We will also endeavor to monitor the statements and the actions of the main parties to the conflict, the government of Uganda and the LRA/M, as well other key parties with particular emphasis on developments related to or having implications for the conflict in Northern Uganda. ... The e-newsletter is open to any organisation committed to this goal. You can use this e-newsletter to tell others about your work, events, publications, and concerns.”
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| NATIONAL RECONCILIATION: A JOINT REPORT (http://www.federo.com/Pages/National%5FReconciliation.html) |
| This report consists of the following individually authored essays: “Mato Oput”; “Challenges of Reconciliation”; “The Necessity of Apologies”; “Truth is the Key to genuine Reconciliation”; “The Emotions vs. Intellectual Level of Public Debate”; “The Need for a Gwanga Vision”; “Reconciliation does not come easy.”
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| NORTHERN UGANDA: JUSTICE IN CONFLICT (http://www.africanrights.unimondo.org/html/ugand001.html) |
| Dated January 20, 2000, this lengthy, descriptive press release announces that “African Rights’ latest report, Northern Uganda: Justice in Conflict suggests that the people of the north are both willing and able to make a key contribution to peace-making efforts and to re-establishing the rule of law in the region. ... In the midst of a protracted crisis, justice was beyond the reach of most people, but they did not resort to ‘mob’ rule. Rather they have shown a commitment to peaceful methods of dispute resolution.”
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| A UGANDAN PEACE INITIATIVE / BY JOHN LAMPEN (http://fptp.quaker.org/62uganda.html) |
| This article appeared in Peace Team News, Summer, 2001, Volume 6, Issue 2, about the activities of JYAK. For more information about JYAK see its separate entry in this bibliography. “In 1997 the Ugandan Fellowship of Reconciliation (JYAK) arranged an exchange visit between women from Soroti and Kasese districts. Quaker Peace & Service funded this. The Kasese group asked for more training in peace work, and a seminar was arranged ... After this first visit in 1998 the Rwenzori Peace Bridge of Reconciliation was formed, with women and men as members. The same trainers gave further seminars in 1999 and 2000, and the group was very active in between. Slowly they worked to convince the local MPs, government and police that such work had no party-political agenda, and that it had a real part to play in the community. One of their activities was to found peace clubs in the local secondary boarding schools.”
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| VIOLENCE, RECONCILIATION AND IDENTITY: THE REINTEGRATION OF LORD’S RESISTANCE ARMY CHILD ABDUCTEES IN NORTHERN UGANDA / ANGELA VEALE AND AKI STAVROU
(http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/Monographs/No92/Contents.html) |
| Issued by the Institute for Security Studies (South Africa) as monograph no. 92, November 2003, each chapter is available separately in PDF format.
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