July 09, 2007
Hard-hitting commentary from Uganda's Moses Okello
Moses Chrispus Okello, who is head of the Research and Advocacy Dept. at Kampala's excellent Refugee Law Project, voiced some hard-hitting criticisms of the ICC in the presentation he gave at the international conference recently held in Nuremberg on the...
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August 27, 2006
Uganda's challenge to the ICC
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June 20, 2006
Peace and justice, Northern Uganda
Janet Anderson of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting published a well researched piece recently on issues surrounding the ICC's indictments of five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. (She even quoted something that our...
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June 02, 2006
A stick too many
In December 2004, the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army came within a hair of negotiating a permanent ceasefire before talks collapsed. Ever since then, the government has been testing out new sticks and carrots in an attempt to...
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February 23, 2006
Uganda holds election
Today, 23 February, Ugandans went to the polls in the country's first multi-party elections in 26 years--and certainly the first free and fair elections since Independence, and potentially before. The BBC reports that the voting appeared to be both free...
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January 31, 2006
Roco Wat in Uganda
Dr. Erin Baines of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, has just sent me links to two extremely interesting-looking studies recently produced (or in one case, co-produced) by researchers at the Institute, including herself....
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November 04, 2005
The ICC and Uganda, contd.
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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...
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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 15, 2005
Peacemaking and threats of prosecution: Uganda
I have been wondering for a while how the ramping up of the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is going to affect the work of people trying to conclude peace agreements-- whether regarding "internal" or trans-national conflicts....
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