Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda: Remembering after Violence (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)

213 Pages·2008·0.63 MB·English

by  Susanne Buckley-Zistel

Conflict Transformation
and Social Change in
Uganda
Remembering after Violence
Susanne Buckley-Zistel
RethinkingPeaceandConflictStudies
SeriesEditor:OliverP.Richmond,Professor,SchoolofInternationalRelations,
UniversityofStAndrews
Editorial Board: Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland, Australia; Henry
F. Carey, Georgia State University, USA; Costas Constantinou, University of
Keele,UK;A.J.R.Groom,UniversityofKent,UK;VivienneJabri,King’sCollege
London,UK;EdwardNewman,UniversityofBirmingham,UK;SorpongPeou,
Sophia University, Japan; Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, University of Sheffield, UK;
ProfessorMichaelPugh,UniversityofBradford,UK;ChandraSriram,University
ofEastLondon,UK;IanTaylor,UniversityofStAndrews,UK;AlisonWatson,
University of St Andrews, UK; R.B.J. Walker, University of Victoria, Canada;
AndrewWilliams,UniversityofStAndrews,UK.
Titlesinclude:
SusanneBuckley-Zistel
CONFLICTTRANSFORMATIONANDSOCIALCHANGEINUGANDA
RememberingafterViolence
JasonFranks
RETHINKINGTHEROOTSOFTERRORISM
VivienneJabri
WARANDTHETRANSFORMATIONOFGLOBALPOLITICS
JamesKer-Lindsay
EUACCESSIONANDUNPEACEKEEPINGINCYPRUS
RogerMacGinty
NOWAR,NOPEACE
TheRejuvenationofStalledPeaceProcessesandPeaceAccords
CarolMcQueen
HUMANITARIANINTERVENTIONANDSAFETYZONES
Iraq,BosniaandRwanda
SorpongPeou
INTERNATIONALDEMOCRACYASSISTANCEFORPEACEBUILDING
TheCambodianExperience
SergeiProzorov
UNDERSTANDINGCONFLICTBETWEENRUSSIAANDTHEEU
TheLimitsofIntegration
OliverP.Richmond
THETRANSFORMATIONOFPEACE
BaharRumelili
CONSTRUCTINGREGIONALANDGLOBALORDER
EuropeandSoutheastAsia
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ChandraLekhaSriram
PEACEASGOVERNANCE
StephanStetter
WORLDSOCIETYANDTHEMIDDLEEAST
ReconstructionsinRegionalPolitics
RethinkingPeaceandConflictStudies
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Conflict Transformation
and Social Change
in Uganda
Remembering after Violence
Susanne Buckley-Zistel
Otto-Suhr-Institutfu¨rPolitikwissenschaft,FreeUniversityBerlin,
Germany
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
Glossary x
Interviewees xi
Acknowledgements xviii
Introduction 1
Analysingtheterminationofviolentconflicts
andsocialchange 3
Thestructureofthebook 5
Methodology 11
1 ViolentConflictsandTheirTermination 12
ViolentconflictsinAfrica 13
Differentapproachestoterminatingviolentconflicts 15
2 InventingWarandPeace 30
Inventingwar 31
Inventingpeace 38
Ahermeneuticframeworkforanalysis 51
3 EffectiveHistoryandtheBeginningofthe
TesoInsurgency 54
TheTesoregionofUganda 54
ColonialisminTeso 57
IndependentUganda 63
Thebeginningoftheinsurgency 65
UgandaunderMuseveni 69
4 MediationandtheCreationofPeaceinTeso 74
MediationinTeso 76
Mediationandtheendoftheinsurgency 92
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viii Contents
5 NarratingtheCauseoftheTesoInsurgency 95
Poverty,disillusionandanger 96
Narratives,identityandmemory 98
CompetingnarrativesinTeso 99
6 FacingPastandFutureaftertheTesoInsurgency 111
TheMukuramemorial 111
InventingPapaEmorimor 117
Tesoin-betweenwarandpeace 121
7 ConflictTerminationandtheAbsenceof
TransformationinTeso 123
Identities,remembering,closureandpower 124
Limitsoftraditionalconflictmanagement 131
8 DealingwiththePastofViolentConflicts 133
Transitionaljustice 133
Reconciliation 138
Unification 141
Notes 146
Bibliography 171
Index 186
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Abbreviations
CA ConstituentAssembly
CP ConservativeParty
DANIDA DanishInternationalDevelopmentAgency
DP DemocraticParty
FOBA FightOboteBackAgain
GTZ GermanTechnicalCo-operation
ICC InternationalCriminalCourt
ICTR InternationalCrimeTribunalforRwanda
ICTY InternationalCrimeTribunalfortheFormerYugoslavia
IMF InternationalMonetaryFund
LC LocalCouncil
LDU LocalDefenceUnit
LRA Lord’sResistanceArmy
NRA NationalResistanceArmy
NRM NationalResistanceMovement
NV NewVision
PCT PresidentialCommissionforTeso
RC ResistanceCouncil
RDC ResidentDistrictCommissioner
RPA RwandesePatrioticArmy
RPF RwandesePatrioticFront
UNLA UgandaNationalLiberationArmy
UNLF UgandaNationalLiberationFront
UPA UgandaPeople’sArmy
UPC UgandaPeople’sCongress
UPDF UgandaPeople’sDefenceForces
UPF UgandaPeople’sFront
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