Conflict and peacebuilding

The drivers, impacts, experiences and dynamics of conflict and peacebuilding.

Background report

Do Local Agreements Forge Peace? The Case of Eastern DRC

The end of the 1998-2003 Congolese war was symbolised by the signing of the ‘All-Inclusive Agreement’ in December 2002. However, due to the continued proliferation of national and foreign armed groups and unaddressed community grievances, this agreement did not bring…
Central and East Africa Hub
2020
Research paper

Une perspective de paix pour le Soudan en 2002 ?

This article analyses the extent to which the international situation immediately following September 11, 2001 created the basis for an end to the civil war in Sudan. The author argues that the situation is handicapped by certain weaknesses: the internal…
Central and East Africa Hub
Cairn.info
2002
Research paper

When kleptocracy becomes insolvent: Brute causes of the civil war in South Sudan

South Sudan obtained independence in July 2011 as a kleptocracy – a militarized, corrupt neo-patrimonial system of governance. By the time of independence, the South Sudanese “political marketplace” was so expensive that the country’s comparatively copious revenue was consumed by…
Central and East Africa Hub
Oxford University Press
2014
Research paper

How the politics of fear generated chaos in South Sudan

Soon after South Sudan achieved independence in 2011, its political landscape grew increasingly volatile. It became almost impossible for international and regional actors to address one crisis before another more serious one erupted. This article combines cultural, political, economic and…
Central and East Africa Hub
Oxford University Press
2018
Research paper

Dr Livingstone, I Presume? Evangelicals, Africa and Faith-Based Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism is a principal means through which Northern-based Christian groups intervene into sub-Saharan African states. However, current scholarship neglects the agentive roles played by religious actors in the delivery of mainstream aid. This secularises humanitarian governance, “others” religious actors and…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2013
Research paper

Context Matters: The Conventional DDR Template is Challenged in South Sudan

The disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programme as implemented in South Sudan provides a perfect entry point to study the interaction between an international intervention and local contexts. The article describes and analyses the DDR programme in South Sudan as…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2013
Research paper

The Lord’s Resistance Army in Sudan: A History and Overview

The ongoing peace talks between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army/Movement (LRA/M) in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, have created renewed international interest in the conflict in northern Uganda. While the negotiations have proved extremely difficult,…
Central and East Africa Hub
Small Arms Survey
2007
Field notes

The Bukavu Series: Toward a Decolonisation of Research

This is a collection of blog posts produced by 30 researchers based in eastern Congo and Europe, where writers critically reflect on the research they’ve done and explore ethical dilemmas when conducting research in conflict-affected areas.
Central and East Africa Hub
PUL Presses
2020
Background report

Aid Seen from the Bottom: Community realities and representations of aid in Eastern DRC

This report investigates community perceptions of the actions carried out by NGOs working to address intersecting crises in Eastern DRC, in Kalehe and Uvira (Ruzizi Plain) territories. These two areas are characterized by a significant presence of humanitarian, development and…
Central and East Africa Hub
Ghent University
2022
Book chapter

Going home: Land, return and reintegration in Southern Sudan and the Three Areas

The end of the war between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement in 2005 has generated the return of an estimated 2.4 million IDPs and refugees to Southern Sudan and the three transitional areas (Abyei, Southern…
Central and East Africa Hub
Practical Action Publishing Ltd
2009
Book chapter

Why humanitarian organizations need to tackle land issues

Humanitarian organizations need to consider land issues for three sets of reasons. First, land crises are central to why humanitarian crises happen, and why they take the form that they do. Second, humanitarian responses, both during the height of crisis…
Central and East Africa Hub
Practical Action Publishing Ltd
2009
Research paper

The Violence of Peace: Ethnojustice in Northern Uganda

Traditional justice, or what this article refers to as ‘ethnojustice’, claims to promote social reconstruction, peace and justice after episodes of war by rebuilding traditional order. Ethnojustice has become an increasingly prominent mode of transitional justice in northern Uganda. As…
Central and East Africa Hub
Wiley Online Library
2014
Background report

Crise foncière et réponses des acteurs en République Démocratique du Congo

À l’Est de la République démocratique du Congo, le foncier est un réceptacle de violence, participant structurellement à la fragilité de la cohésion sociale. Bien que l’État congolais, les acteurs non étatiques et les bailleurs de fonds se soient engagés…
Central and East Africa Hub
Ghent University
2021

A summons to the magistrates’ courts in South Africa and Uganda

The expansive literature on law and justice across Africa emphasizes why people do not use lower state courts. Consequently, a striking lack of attention is paid to how and why people do engage with lower state courts. Drawing on a…
Central and East Africa Hub
Oxford University Press
2020
Research paper

Transitional Justice and Political Economies of Survival in Post-conflict Northern Uganda

This article explores the interplay between transitional justice and ‘everyday’ political economies of survival in post-conflict Acholiland, northern Uganda. It advances two main arguments. First, that transitional justice — as part and parcel of conventional liberal peacebuilding packages — promotes…
Central and East Africa Hub
Wiley Online Library
2017
Research paper

The counterinsurgency/conservation nexus: guerrilla livelihoods and the dynamics of conflict and violence in the Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The growing militarisation of nature conservation has refocused attention on the relations between counterinsurgency and conservation. This contribution analyses how these two phenomena entwine in the Virunga National Park, located in the war-ridden east of the Democratic Republic of the…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2016
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