Browsing Journal Articles (Development Studies) by Title
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Africa Peace and Conflict Journal, v. 4, no. 1, June 2011
(2011)Two sets of standards are often applied to Africa: in one, the international community takes decisive action when there is sufficient geo-political interest in a state, and in the other, the international community remains ... -
Amnesty and Prosecution of International Humanitarian Law Violations in Uganda:
(Journal of Development Studies, 2015)In continued human search for peace and justice, which are pertinent to development, post-war societies are confronted with a dilemma of either letting go of the past through legalized amnesty or embarking on comprehensive ... -
Beyond Masculinity: Gender, Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Northern Uganda
(African Journals Online, 2011)Masculinity and femininity debates of armed conflict in Africa have always regarded men as fighters and women as passive victims of war. The exclusion of women from the armed forces in most traditional societies originated ... -
Broken Citizenship: Formely abducted children and their social reintegration in Northen Uganda
(2010)Among the large Scale conflict that have defined the African continent in twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is the Lord Resistence Army (LRA) rebellion against President Museveni's government in Northern Uganda. The ... -
Building vocational skills for marginalised youth in Uganda:
(Elsevier, 2015)Educational exclusion leads to the marginalisation of many youth in regards to employment and other livelihood opportunities. Vocational education and training (VET) is expected to offer skills to ameliorate this situation. ... -
Business ethics as field of teaching, training and research in East Africa
(African Journal of Business Ethics, 2011)The increase in corporate malfeasance has lead to a rising interest in Business Ethics in general and a particular focus on Business Ethics as an academic field, but the proliferation of Business Ethics as an academic field ... -
The Case for an African Solution to Cybercrime:
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2016)Currently, Africa hosts 4 of 10 countries with the highest cybercrime levels in the world. To augment the inadequacy of municipal cyber legislations in Africa, the African Union Convention on Security in Cyberspace and ... -
Centrality of the family in the pursuit of sustainable development
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012)The complex nature of the concept of sustainable development requires an integration of knowledge, other than basing on a particular science or model. This article widens the horizon by bringing onboard an approach based ... -
Conflict threats to human security: the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) case, Gulu District, Northern Uganda
(Science Research Publishing, 2019-12-03)The study recognised that conflicts threaten human security in various ways. When prolonged, for example, they have a direct damage on physical infrastructure such as medical and educational facilities. Using a qualitative ... -
Constitutionalism, Democratisation and Militarism in Uganda
(Nkumba University, 2016)The paper analyses the extent to which constitutionalism and democratization have played out in Uganda and whether militarism has interfered with the sustainability of constitutionalism and democratization, leading to ... -
Contractor Monitoring and Performance of Road Infrastructure Projects in Uganda: A Management Model
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2017)An understanding of the influence of contractor monitoring on performance of road infrastructural projects in Uganda provided an impetus for this study. The objectives of the study were to: assess the relationship between ... -
Contribution of human capital on poverty reduction in rural areas of Uganda. a case of Kisoro District
(International Peer Reviewed Journal and Book Publishers, 2023-03-07)The study was about the contribution of human capital onpoverty reduction in rural areas of Uganda taking Kisoro district as a case study. In Uganda, poverty in rural areas had remained a challenge as depicted by 31 ... -
Decentralization and Efficient Service Delivery in Local Governments
(2011)This collective volume on decentralization and service delivery in local governments, notably in Uganda, is the outcome of a conference organized in Kampala in 2009 by Uganda Martyrs University and University of Groningen. ... -
Democracy and rural development in post-apartheid South Africa
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012)The research addresses the contentious link between democracy and sustainable rural economic development in post-apartheid South Africa. Historically, in 1994, the democratic state in South Africa inherited a legacy of ... -
Documenting Baganda Ethno-medicine:
(Journal of Applied and Advanced Research, 2016)The continued use of ethno-medicines among some indigenous communities in the contemporary Uganda remains as one of the clearest evidence that indigenous people do not only have close relationship with nature, but also ... -
Eco-socio Impact of Mineral Resource Mining in the Karamoja Region of Uganda
(African Journals Online, 2017)Mining is one of the prolific activities geared towards poverty eradication, but an elusive goal for most government leaders in developing countries. Oftentimes, the economic aspect of mining overshadows ecological and ... -
Eco-socio Impact of Mineral Resource Mining in the Karamoja Region of Uganda
(Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, 2017)Mining is one of the prolific activities geared towards poverty eradication, but an elusive goal for most government leaders in developing countries. Oftentimes, the economic aspect of mining overshadows ecological and ... -
Effectiveness of the education in building self-reliance skills among refugee students in Uganda
(UniversePG, 2023)The study sought to find out the effectiveness of education interventions for refugees in refugee communities in Uganda’s Districts of Kiryandongo and Kampala. It explored practices used in management of education programs, ... -
The effects of porous borders on the security of states in the Great Lakes region: a case of Uganda
(2023-01-31)This paper is addressing the concept of porous borders and how it affects the security of a country using Uganda as a case. Borders the way we know them are associated with the concept of a state, and ... -
Engendering Social Capital: Perspectives from Rural Development Networks in Uganda
(African Journals Online, 2010)This paper examines the link between gender, social capital and rural development in Uganda. Noting that gender relations involve struggles over control of strategic resources and relationships, it highlights the complex ...