Conflict and peacebuilding

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

Research paper

Introduction: Making Sense of South Sudan

This introductory essay to a selection of African Affairs articles on South Sudan documents the critical contributions of empirically rich and analytically rigorous research, highly relevant to understanding South Sudan’s crisis, led by South Sudanese scholars. This contrasts with journalism…
Central and East Africa Hub
Oxford University Press
2016
Multimedia

South Sudan: The price of war, the price of peace – a graphic story

In December 2013, South Sudan erupted into civil war as President Salva Kiir’s army battled rebel forces led by former Vice-President Riek Machar. Tens of thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. This cartoon tells the story of the…
Central and East Africa Hub
2016
Research paper

Peace and the security sector in Sudan, 2002–11

This paper examines how contests over military control were played out during peace negotiations and in the implementation of agreements (including the manipulation or violation of the terms of agreements) in Sudan between 2002 and 2011.
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2017
Book chapter

Comparing peace processes: Sudan

This chapter examines how contests over military control were played out during peace negotiations and in the implementation of agreements in Sudan between 2002 and 2011.
Central and East Africa Hub
Routledge
2019
Thesis

Lugbara “Religion” Revisited: A Study of Social Repair in West Nile, North-West Uganda

This thesis explores processes of transitional justice as post-war social repair. It interrogates the multifarious quests through which Lugbara people of north-west Uganda seek to rebuild their intimate relationships and social lives, with recourse to explanations and therapies for suffering…
Central and East Africa Hub
London School of Economics
2020
Research paper

Geographies of Unease: Witchcraft, Mobility and Insecurity in an African Borderland

This thesis explores processes of transitional justice as post-war social repair. It interrogates the multifarious quests through which Lugbara people of north-west Uganda seek to rebuild their intimate relationships and social lives, with recourse to explanations and therapies for suffering…
Central and East Africa Hub
Science Direct
2021
Research paper

Charcoal power: The political violence of non-fossil fuel in Uganda

Charcoal is important in Africa due to its centrality to urbanization. Despite this, the politics of charcoal remain largely unexplored. This article asks how political power shapes charcoal production and how charcoal as an energy source shapes political power through…
Central and East Africa Hub
Science Direct
2017
Research paper

From disaster to devastation: drought as war in northern Uganda

This paper proposes a shift from the concept of disaster to one of devastation when dealing with the destructive consequences of climate change. It argues that today, a discourse of climate-change disaster has become dominant, in which present disasters are…
Central and East Africa Hub
Wiley Online Library
2018
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
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