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Research paper

Lakes as Rebellious Landscapes: From ‘Fishing Rebels’ to ‘Fishy State Officials’ in DR Congo

This article discusses the frictions that emerge when the management of Virunga National Park in eastern DR Congo tries to retake control of Lake Edward through infrastructural and military interventions. These interventions not only encounter resistance from multiple rebel groups…

Central and East Africa Hub

Science Direct

2022

Research paper

A Reason Not to Belong: Political Decentralization, Intercommunal Relations, and Changing Identities in Northeastern Uganda

Based on oral history fieldwork in Abim, Meyerson documents these changes in sociopolitical identification among the Ethur. In doing so, he demonstrates how political decentralization has become a venue for the combination of international discourses of indigenous rights, national notions…

Central and East Africa Hub

Cambridge University Press

2022

Research paper

Peace Starts with Peace of Mind: Study of the Intersection between Postconflict Trauma, Peacebuilding and Economic Development in Northern Uganda

This study examines an intervention implemented by TPO Uganda in northern Uganda addressing mental health challenges, conflict mediation and economic empowerment. The research consisted of 23 individual in-depth interviews and 16 focus group discussions, supported by a quantitative questionnaire completed…

Central and East Africa Hub

Medknow Publications

2022

Research paper

“Tokowa po ya ekolo”: The Military Body Within the Congolese Army

This article explores the conceptualization of the body among former Congolese soldiers living as refugees in Johannesburg. The article draws on extensive fieldwork in Johannesburg, South Africa and employs the concept of deterritorialization and reterritorialization to explain the bodies of…

Central and East Africa Hub

SAGE Publications

2022

Research paper

Sexual violence against men in conflict and post-conflict settings: A qualitative research methodology

This article describes the research design and the strategies employed in qualitative research with South Sudanese male refugee survivors of sexual violence who have resettled in two communities in Uganda since the onset of the 2013 South Sudan conflict.

Central and East Africa Hub

SAGE Publications

2022

Research paper

The Cultural Problematic in Narratives of Violence against Women and Girls in South Sudan

Our research points to the need for social and gender norm change approaches to be better contextualised within the political economy and through applying a nuanced critique of the role of culture in normalising many forms of VAWG. In addition,…

Central and East Africa Hub

SAGE Publications

2022

Briefing

MONUSCO’s Mandate and the Climate Security Nexus

If we translate the debate on the climate security nexus to a more operational level, we inevitably arrive at the question of whether and to what extent the fight against climate change should be included in the mandate of current…

Central and East Africa Hub

2020

Research paper

Conflict, trade and the medium-term future of food security in Sudan

This article considers that the classic neoliberal prescription of peace, growth and foreign investment may deepen (and obscure) the needs and grievances of those historically left behind in a dysfunctional development process.

Central and East Africa Hub

Wiley Online Library

2007

Research paper

Divisive ‘Commonality’: state and insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Northern donor policies relating to building a common future and building peaceful states and societies go to the heart of national and international security agendas. This article critiques the concept of commonality between donors and recipients and within recipient countries.…

Central and East Africa Hub

Taylor & Francis Online

2011

Briefing

One year after the coup: What next for Sudan’s Juba Peace Agreement?

This briefing considers the changing political situation in Sudan, exploring how the relationship between two key factions in the conflict has complicated discussions around the formation of a new political arrangement in Sudan.

Central and East Africa Hub

XCEPT

2022

Research paper

Sudan: International dimensions to the state and its crisis

This paper locates the internationalisation of Sudanese governance in a historical context.

Central and East Africa Hub

London School of Economics

2007

Research paper

Sudan’s elusive democratisation: civic mobilisation, provincial rebellion and chameleon dictatorships

Sudan experienced two inspirational popular uprisings that brought down military dictatorships, but the ‘Arab Spring’ passed it by. This paper analyses social movements and armed resistance within the dualistic structure of Sudan’s centre and periphery. A pattern of alternating military…

Central and East Africa Hub

Taylor & Francis Online

2013