October 25, 2005
Pres. Museveni Lecture
I attended a lecture given by Ugandan President Museveni today (Oct. 25) at Oxford, where I'm currently on sabbatical as a Visiting Fellow. The topic was "Developing Nations and Human Rights: A Perspective on Present Day Uganda." Given that Uganda...
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October 12, 2005
War and Justice in Northern Uganda
Tim Allen’s War and Justice in Northern Uganda is a seminal work that carefully evaluates the conflict that has raged in the region for nearly twenty years. Allen is an anthropologist from the Crisis States Research Centre at the Development...
Posted by Joanna Quinn at 09:35 AM |
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October 08, 2005
Rwandans, still struggling
On October 7, Hirondelle news service had a despatch out of Kigali saying that the country's leaders now expect "over 700,000 people-- almost one-tenth of the population-- to be brought before genocide courts." Just a few weeks ago, the caseload...
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October 05, 2005
Thoughtful writings about TJ in Uganda, elsewhere
Joanna R. Quinn of the University of Western Ontario has recently sent me copies of-- and links to-- some of her great work about northern Uganda. Sadly, much of this work requires "registration" with the "publisher" of the periodicals concerned....
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September 27, 2005
East Timor's CAVR: indigenous methods and the international community
A friend has just sent me the transcript of an interesting-looking documentary about East Timor's ground-breaking Truth Commission, which wrapped up its four years of work earlier this year. The documentary, titled "The Price of Peace", was made by the...
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