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Item Africans and their Environment: Challenges and Possibilities of Restoring the Link Constrained by Resource Conflicts(Uganda Martyrs University, 2017) Kamugisha, MarsialeItem Analysis of pre- and post-departure experiences of returnee Ugandan migrant domestic workers from Saudi Arabia(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025-07-21) Munyonyo Asiimwe, Florence; Musinguzi, DenisIn this chapter, the authors explore the wide range of human experiences, both positive and negative, that Ugandan migrant domestic workers (MDWs) encountered before they traveled to Saudi Arabia to participate in international domestic labor. This research consisted of a research sample of 18 people. This included 12 returnee Ugandan migrant workers from Saudi Arabia and 6 key informants who participated in the study. This group of informants included representatives of the Ministries of Gender, Labor, and Social Development, the Ugandan Association of Employment Recruitment Agency, and directors of recruiting companies. The study also investigated a recruitment firm, payment of recruitment fees, passport processing fees, medical examination checkup fees, and contract signing and departure training fees.Item Creaducation: a Focus on Dynamic Education for Development in Uganda.(Uganda Martyrs Univrsity: Mtafiti Mwafrika Monograph Series., 2017) Najjuka, SalomeIn discussing creaducation as a new focus forming a critical part of dynamic education for development in Uganda, this discourse builds on the work of five key theorists namely: Csikszentmihalyi (1996); McClelland (2015); Sternberg and Lubart (1995); and Levinger (1996); to propose an education pathway that will propel us to development on our African continent and specifically in Uganda. Creaducation is prescribed as a new type of education that focuses on, and awakens the creativity of a learning individual to metamorphose into “a development individual”. This education aims to hone within an individual, the tools that will be fundamentally contributory to the development endeavours in our country and elsewhere. Creaducation arouses, creates, and invigorates the latent elements within an individual to begin a fathomable process of creative thinking, problem solving, process improvement, and to actions leading to self-betterment and community development. This form of education calls forth the latent genie that lies within us, to a perpetual unleashing of creative works of profundity and brilliance.Item Cultural Identity and Gloablisation Among the Contemporary Lugbara: Towards Plural Cultural Identity(Uganda Martyrs University, 2017) Ika, LinoItem Democratic consolidation and intelligence oversight in Uganda: implications for emerging democracies(LAMBERT Academic Publishing (LAP), 2017-04-04) Asiimwe, Solomon MuchwaThe book is about intelligence oversight and the promotion of democracy. It explains intelligence management, primarily focusing on intelligence oversight institutions and mechanisms. The book brings out an assessment on the role of intelligence oversight institutions and mechanisms in the promotion of democracy. The book reveals that intelligence oversight in Uganda is not explicit because the intelligence legislation is also not clear about it. The only meaningful intelligence oversight is assumed to be done by the agency internal administration under the auspice of the President. The other existing institutions like Parliament, the Inspectorate of Government, the Judiciary, are not equal to the task of overseeing the intelligence services effectively. This is due to the uniqueness of the intelligence sector; in its nature and operations of working under total secrecy compared to other sectors of government. The book therefore, recommends for an intelligence review which should end up with recommendations for amending the intelligence law to harmonise it with other recently enacted laws aimed at consolidating democratic governance.Item Earth charter: a beacon of African youth for a sustainable planet(Springer Singapore, 2025) Kamugisha, MarsialeAfrica is one of the continents currently facing unstable ways of living due to a myriad of threats such as climate change, environmental degradation, flooding, and poverty that continue to disrupt harmony within the planet. Yet the continent has the youngest, most energetic, and most vibrant youth populace, who can participate in addressing issues affecting the planet. Nearly 60% of its population is below the age of 25. However, such youth cannot start working toward realizing a sustainable planet if they are not empowered with knowledge and skills. Moreover, the lives of several of them have been defined by environmental degradation, political instability, conflict, marginalization, and poverty, giving rise to discontent, frustration, and outright anger—hence, using the Earth Charter to awaken them to become more active, mindful, vigilant, and consistent agents of reversing the current ecological crisis, transforming and sustaining the planet. By getting involved, they will have an influence and multiplier effect of their actions on the world’s behavior patterns toward the universe. The Earth Charter accentuates the significance of empowering youth and children, providing them with learning opportunities that enable them to make significant contributions to sustainable development. The chapter aims to explore how the Earth Charter inspires African youth to cherish a sustainable planet. It also aims to consider how the youth can acquire knowledge and green skills that they can apply to transform the planet. This study employs a desk-based research methodology, including a comprehensive literature review and analysis of secondary data, enriched by deep reflection.Item Law enforcement intelligence in Uganda(Routledge, 2024) Muchwa, Asiimwe SolomonThis chapter examines law enforcement intelligence in Uganda. It starts with the premise that law enforcement intelligence is vital for the police to be effective and efficient in keeping law and order, but in Uganda, it is rather weak and not very obvious. The chapter presents a conceptual and analytic framework for law enforcement, disorder, and insecurity in Uganda. Thereafter, it examines and explains the challenges facing law enforcement intelligence in Uganda. It argues that the lack of clarity emanates from the conflated nature of the intelligence services in the country. This works against the police's ability to effectively deal with existing and future threats to law and order. The chapter also argues that the competing mandates of the intelligence providers in the country are the prime challenge, among others. It uses a qualitative methodology that combines historical/archival review and a combination of primary and secondary research into Ugandan intelligence services.Item Leadership, context, and populist foreign policy in East Africa: an analysis of Uganda and Rwanda(Springer Link, 2023-05-10) Mawa, Michael; Asiimwe, Solomon Muchwa; Abaho, AnnePopulism can be understood as the reliance on strong leaders, whom, for political gain mobilize the masses aiming at enacting radical reforms in the name of the “people.” Through their action and speech, populist leaders present themselves as the voice of the people (Mudde & Kaltwasser, 2017; Nyadera & Agwanda, 2019; Giovanni, 2005). While populism is intensely debated in Europe and North America, there is now growing interest in the phenomenon among many African countries. For instance, citing examples of populist political parties and leaders from South Africa, Kenya, and Zambia, Nyadera and Agwanda (2019) connected the emergency of populism in Africa to failure by political leaders to offer a tangible development agenda to a bourgeoning urban poor population that constitute the largest voting bloc. The above examples however are not unique cases in Africa.Item Learner at the Centre: Humanising the Fundamental Purpose of Mass Education(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2018) Kabiito, Bendicto; Namugumya, JosephineItem Rememberance, Reconcilliation, and reintegration: Living the healing of war memories in Northern Uganda(Uganda Martyrs Univrsity Book Serries (UMU BS), 2017) Kabiito, Bendicto; Angucia, MargaretThis book is a convergence of our two ‘projects’ that initially appeared unrelated: Ben’s masters research which was carried out under the research of the Department of Governance and Peace Studies on the theme “Whose Community: Memory, Conflict and Tradition” and picking on follow-up themes of Margaret’s PhD work on social reintegration of formerly abducted children in northern Uganda. Eventually finding common ground on memory, reconciliation/forgiveness and peacebuilding, we are glad to place this book in your hands. The book can be used not only to understand some of the sticking issues around memory, reconciliation and peacebuilding in the specific aftermath of the two-decade conflict in northern Uganda but also to conceptually understand memory and reconciliation as can be applied or used elsewhere.Item Volunteering by displaced youth in Uganda: livelihoods, skills, employability and inequalities(Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, 2024-09-01) Fadel, Bianca; Smith, Matt Baillie; Ahimbisibwe, Frank; Boyle, Owen; Freimane, Inga; Kanyandago, Peter; Mills, Sarah; Okech, Moses; O'Loghlen, Aisling; Rogerson, Daniel; Sahasranaman, Aarti; Tukundane, Cuthbert; Turyamureeba, RobertThis chapter explores the role of volunteering in the lives of young refugees in Uganda. It analyses findings from ‘Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda’ (RYVU), a large interdisciplinary research project aimed at developing a critical understanding of volunteering by young refugees that builds from their voices and experiences. The chapter outlines the mixed-methods collaborative approach of the project and explores the relationships between volunteering and the livelihoods of displaced young people, how volunteering impacts their skills, employability, and the inequalities they experience, and the roles that volunteering plays in shaping social connections and community development efforts. It concludes by highlighting the implications of the findings for ensuring that participation in volunteering does not increase inequalities or take advantage of displaced young people.