scholarly journals The Role of Rotary Clubs in Post-Conflict Peace Building: A Case of Northern Uganda (2006-2010)

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Joseph Besigye Bazirake ◽  
Paul Bukuluki
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
International Service ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
Education Support

This paper presents the Peace building experience of Rotary Clubs in Northern Uganda between 2006 and 2010, so as to identify their contributions in post-conflict peace building processes. Through the Reflective Peace Practice (RPP) analytical framework, the paper presents an insight into Rotary clubs’ post-conflict Peace building interventions in the Northern Ugandan districts of Gulu, Kitgum, Lira and Pader. The paper is premised on the theoretical framework of Rotary’s outline of international service that identifies the paths to peace as: patriotism, conciliation, freedom, progress, justice, sacrifice, and loyalty. The paper discusses Rotary clubs’ peace building projects in Northern Uganda as clustered along three generic lines: the improvement of health, alleviation of poverty, and education support. The effectiveness of the “paths to peace” principles was hampered by challenges such as: the eroded core values of the people owing to life in Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, the beneficiary non-ownership of Rotary projects, the difficulty in recruitment and maintenance of Rotary clubs’ membership as well as limited funding. The paper acknowledges that Rotary clubs’ approaches to peace building especially the peaceplus ‘model’ has potential if adapted to the local context, to contribute to conflict transformation efforts in post conflict Northern Uganda

scholarly journals Influence of reconciliation programmes on the reconciliation attitudes of war-affected adolescents in Northern Uganda

Afrika Focus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Benjamin Alipanga ◽  
Maarten De Schryver ◽  
Stella Neema ◽  
Eric Broekaert ◽  
Ilse Derluyn
Keyword(s):  
Social Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Daily Stressors ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
Intervention Community ◽  
Conflict Reconciliation

Whether post-conflict reconciliation programmes are able to change hostile behaviours is not known. This study sought to assess the influence of reconciliation programmes on the reconciliation attitudes of war-affected adolescents in two communities in Northern Uganda. Four hundred and forty five adolescents within two communities, one with and the other without interventions were assessed for exposure to war-related and daily stressors and place of residence using hierarchical regression analysis to predict reconciliation attitudes. Adolescents in the non-intervention community recorded more positive and also more negative reconciliation attitudes; exposure to daily and war-related stressors was more positively associated with increasing reconciliation attitudes among adolescents in the non-intervention than those in the intervention community. Overall the programmes recorded limited impact on reconciliation attitudes, perhaps due to the pervasive adverse social situation of the people. Conclusion: there is a need for multi-pronged, collaborative programme efforts targeting holistic recovery programmes with focus on changing negative reconciliation attitudes.

Life after violence in North India: Islamic relief orgaizations and transactional relationships in a plural humanitarian space

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Larouche
Keyword(s):  
Positive Influence ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
North India ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Humanitarian Space ◽  
Displaced People

Abstract Religious humanitarianism is often closely scrutinized, as it is either viewed as exerting a positive influence in post-conflict contexts—through peace-building and sense-making—or a negative one—through proselytism and division. This article contends that both these (negative and positive) perspectives on the role played by religious organizations overemphasize, to a certain extent, their transformative power in post-conflict contexts, at least in the short term. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with both Islamic and non-confessional humanitarian organizations supporting internally displaced people—victims of anti-Muslim violence in Muzaffarnagar, India—I suggest that the inherent plurality and competitive dimension of the humanitarian field leads to a form of transactional relationship between displaced people and organizations and tends to reduce the importance of ideological differences between organizations. Paying attention to this particularity of the humanitarian field and how displaced people deal with it can provide us with a better understanding of the actual influence of religious humanitarianism in post-conflict contexts.

scholarly journals Introduction

Focaal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (57) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marita Eastmond
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Post War ◽  
Social Recovery

This special section of Focaal explores processes of social recovery and peace-building in the aftermath of radical violence and political upheaval. The articles draw on detailed ethnographic case studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country that was shattered by war and ethnic cleansing in the 1990s, and raise issues of relevance to other post-conflict situations. Challenging “reconciliation” as a moral discourse with universalist claims, the articles highlight the dynamics of its localization in different contexts of intervention in post-war society. The four contributions explore different facets of this dynamic as it is played out in the key areas of justice, the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, and NGO peace-building activities. They illuminate what happens when the global paradigm of reconciliation encounters and filters through meanings and motivations of actors in local contexts. They also note that everyday interactions between former adversaries take place not as a moral engagement with reconciliation but as part of rebuilding a sense of normality. The findings point to the need to critically investigate the conditions under which such encounters may empower or prohibit the rebuilding of social relations and trust in post-war societies.

The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
Wide Range

For the three decades of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ (1968–98), the United Kingdom experienced within its borders a profound and polarizing conflict. Yet relatively little research has addressed the complex effects, legacies and memories of this conflict in Britain. It occupies a marginal position in British social, cultural and political history, and the experiences and understandings of those in or from Britain who fought in it, were injured or harmed by it, or campaigned against it, have been neglected both in wider scholarship and in public policy. In the peace process since 1994, British initiatives towards ‘post-conflict’ remembering have been limited and fragmented. This ground-breaking book provides the first comprehensive investigation of the history and memory of the Troubles in Britain. It examines the impacts of the conflict upon individual lives, political and social relationships, communities and culture in Britain; and explores how the people of Britain (including its Irish communities) have responded to, and engaged with the conflict, in the context of contested political narratives produced by the State and its opponents.Setting an agenda for further research and public debate, the book demonstrates that ‘unfinished business’ from the conflicted past persists unaddressed in Britain; and advocates the importance of acknowledging legacies, understanding histories, and engaging with memories in the context of peace-building and reconciliation. Contributors include scholars from a wide range of disciplines (social, political and cultural history; politics; media, film and cultural studies; law; literature; performing arts; sociology; peace studies); activists, artists, writers and peace-builders; and people with direct personal experience of the conflict.

scholarly journals Influence of reconciliation programmes on the reconciliation attitudes of war-affected adolescents in Northern Uganda

Afrika Focus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Alipanga ◽  
Maarten De Schryver ◽  
Stella Neema ◽  
Eric Broekaert ◽  
Ilse Derluyn
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Daily Stressors ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
Intervention Community ◽  
Conflict Reconciliation

Whether post-conflict reconciliation programmes are able to change hostile behaviours is not known. This study sought to assess the influence of reconciliation programmes on the reconciliation attitudes of war-affected adolescents in two communities in Northern Uganda. Four hundred and forty five adolescents within two communities, one with and the other without interventions were assessed for exposure to war-related and daily stressors and place of residence using hierar- chical regression analysis to predict reconciliation attitudes. Adolescents in the non-intervention community recorded more positive and also more negative reconciliation attitudes; exposure to daily and war-related stressors was more positively associated with increasing reconciliation attitudes among adolescents in the non-intervention than those in the intervention community. Overall the programmes recorded limited impact on reconciliation attitudes, perhaps due to the pervasive adverse social situation of the people. Conclusion: there is a need for multi-pronged, collaborative programme efforts targeting holistic recovery programmes with focus on changing negative reconciliation attitudes. Key words: reconciliation attitudes, reconciliation programmes, war-affected adolescents, Northern Uganda 

Peacebuilding requirements in post-conflict societies

2020 ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Zyad Samir Al-Dabagh
Keyword(s):  
Major Obstacle ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

The process of building peace and laying its foundations within the societies of the world, especially those newly emerging from the stage of conflict, are among the important and indispensable matters. Without peace, opportunities diminish in obtaining the essentials of a safe and normal life, and without peace, societies cannot It works and advances towards a better future. However, peacebuilding operations in many societies emerging from conflict or those in which they live may face a set of challenges and obstacles that constitute a major obstacle to them, which necessitates searching for the best ways and means by which these obstacles can be addressed in order to build a real and effective peace that is reflected Positively on the people of those societies.

Effective Citizenship, Civil Action, and Prospects for Post-Conflict Justice in Yemen

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 754-758
Author(s):  
Stacey Philbrick Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Volunteer Teachers ◽  
Civil Action ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Rural Village ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The City

A woman takes on work repairing cell phones in a small town in the southern governorate of Lahj. In Aden, an ‘aqīla (neighborhood representative) refuses to authorize the marriage of an underage girl. In a rural village outside of Sana'a, women petition the shaykh for permission to build a community center in which they can market home crafts to other women. Young women and men in Ibb and in Hadramawt work as volunteer teachers and coordinate with very different municipal authorities to ensure children can learn. And in the divided city of Taiz, a youth organization trains internally displaced Yemenis in the maintenance of the solar technologies that are keeping the city running.

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