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Child soldiers or war affected children? Why the formerly abducted children of northern Uganda are not child soldiers
(Intervention, 2014) Angucia Margaret
In many places around the globe, over many centuries, adults have forcibly involved children in war. In more recent times, these forcibly involved children have come to be collectively referred to as ‘child soldiers’, in an attempt to address the crises that these children experience within war conditions. However, recent ¢eld experiences from northern Uganda show that children, formerly abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army, as well as the community they return to, do not consider themselves as soldiers. This paper explains the reasons why the children reject this categorisation and prefer to be regarded as war a¡ected. This paper concludes with the warning that erroneous categorisation of war a¡ected children might in£uence, and/or undermine, the e¡ectiveness of targeted intervention programmes.
Children and War in Africa: The Crisis Continues in Northern Uganda
(Professors World Peace Academy, 2009) Angucia Margaret
Since the 1990s when the nature of conflict changed from interstate to intrastate, the use of children in the battlefronts and related places has become unprecedented. This paper discusses issues on children and war based on African experiences. The paper shows how children and their surroundings suffer in war conditions and how the crisis of use of children continues in northern Uganda. Issues that face children in war refuse to go away, the paper concludes. This paper is a version of the theoretical framework of the author's thesis on the social reintegration of war-affected children in northern Uganda. She is indebted to Inge Hutter, Peter Kanyandago and Jacques Zeleen.
Digital education for peacebuilding in post-conflict contexts: a systematic review of ICT-enabled learning with insights for rebuilding Sudan
(World Association for Sustainable Development, 2026-07-10) Musinguzi Denis; Ntayi M. Joseph; Mubangizi James; Kiggundu Tonny
This systematic literature review examines Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-enabled education for peacebuilding in post-conflict contexts, offering insights for the rebuilding of Sudan’s education system. Using SPIDER criteria and PRISMA guidelines, 49 peer-reviewed studies were selected via systematic searches of Scopus, Web of Science and databases of grey literature. Results showed a diverse set of ICTs, mobile learning, offline digital tools, blended models, and peace education platforms, deployed in a variety of conflict environments. Recorded impacts included better access to learning and continuity of education, increased social cohesion, leadership strengthening, and recovery from trauma. Enabling factors such as institutional readiness, cultural adaptation, teacher capacity, and community engagement, and barriers such as limited connectivity, funding fragility, and gender differences are highlighted. Twelve key lessons were identified to guide the recovery strategy for Sudan’s education system. ICT can support educational recovery and peacebuilding, but success in Sudan depends on strategic integration, local ownership, inclusive design, policy alignment, and longitudinal, multi-sectoral evaluation to ensure sustainable impact.
Environmental economies, survival ecologies, and economic interests in pastoral Uganda: the justice question in the socio-environmental governance of pastoral resources of Karamoja
(African Journals Online (AJOL), 2021-08-04) Kabiito Bendicto
This paper presents a departure from the historical cataloguing of scarcity and poverty, as definitive frames of Karamoja sub-region of Uganda; a narrative that purports to portray the duo as natural, permanent and insurmountable features of the sub-region. This study demonstrates that these were both created in and projected onto the sub-region. The study provides evidence to the fact that; 1. Externally-driven pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial undertakings (which are underrated in many analyses on Karamoja) are the building blocks of the protracted conflicts, insecurities and ecological damages that ravaged Karamoja; 2. The sub-region offers more potentials than limitations as studies on Karamoja tend to portray. This research report is an invitation to both inward and outward looking (of Karamoja) for diagnosis and solutions. Inspired by critical realism and environmental justice theories, the study interrogates policies, mentalities, actions and inactions that fostered economic and ecological exploitation of Karamoja; endangering environmental and social ecologies of the sub-region. Attention is paid to how these jeopardised the environment-based economy of the sub-region’s population, while highlighting the human, ecological and economic potentials that need and deserve collective action for social and environmental re-address.
Functions of governing boards in Catholic institutions: a multi-dimensional analysis of strategic planning, regulatory compliance, and resource mobilisation in Uganda
(East African Nature & Science Organization, 2025-06-30) Oyo Charles; Musinguzi Denis; Owino Philip
This qualitative study examined governing board functions in Catholic institutions across Uganda through three core dimensions: strategic planning, regulatory compliance, and resource mobilisation. Using interpretive phenomenological design, the study involved 78 participants, including board members, managers, and staff across Catholic schools and health facilities in four ecclesiastical provinces. Data collection utilised semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions, analysed using MAXQDA software with thematic analysis techniques grounded in integrated agency, resource dependence, and stakeholder theories. Findings revealed significant theory-practice disconnections with 68% of boards demonstrating reactive strategic planning approaches, 73% showing reactive compliance management, and 75% exhibiting over-reliance on external funding sources. The study uncovered "ceremonial governance" patterns where boards functioned as validation rather than strategic creation bodies, operating primarily through procedural compliance rather than functional effectiveness. These findings contribute empirical evidence on governance challenges in African Catholic contexts, offering practical implications for enhancing board functionality through integrated governance standards, systematic accountability frameworks, and balanced professional-mission excellence approaches. The research addresses critical gaps in governance literature by investigating board functions beyond financial metrics in mission-driven organisations, providing insights applicable to faith-based institutions globally while recognising the unique canonical-secular accountability tensions inherent in Catholic institutional governance.
Globalisation Dimensions and Community Development: the Case of Uganda
(Nkumba University, 2016) Mawa Michael; Olowo George
This paper addresses the contradictory trends in economic development programmes that are merging up the rich and poor countries of the world today into one global village. The development trends of the developed world appear to be top-down. Compared to the trends in the developing world, where the rural community dominates, development plans and strategies are down-top and sometimes these have been described by the developed countries as being traditional and backward. Taking cognizance of this irony, this paper examines globalization with the view to pave ways for identification of new solutions for the development of the third world.
Grand narratives of the Great Lakes Region of Africa and their contribution to the current conflicts
(Mtafiti Mwafrika (African Researcher), 2003) Ngabirano Maximiano
The strategy of this paper is to draw attention to the influence of narrative and group identities to the current conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. It argues that past memories, passed over to the present generation through community narratives, have contributed to the current crisis. Narratives have been a driving force in forming solidarity and at the same time in excluding and exterminating others. Narrative groups have further consolidated allies and distinguished enemies, in this way broadening the crisis in the region. The paper concludes by asserting that particular narratives remain dangerous in the Great Lakes Region, unless they are reconstructed in recognition of others narratives.
Intelligence oversight systems in Uganda: challenges and prospects
(Routledge, 2021-02-11) Muchwa Solomon Asiimwe
This paper highlights deficiencies in Uganda’s national security civilian intelligence services’ oversight systems and their implications for the democratic governance of the security sector. It argues that the intelligence subsector in Uganda still lags behind as far as adhering to democratic governance norms is concerned. The legislature and civil society organizations which are supposed to ensure that intelligence organizations operate within the rule of law find veritable challenges due to some legislative ambiguities. The paper recommends that the laws governing intelligence services should be amended to give more definite mandates to the legislature and other oversight bodies.
Marketization of humanitarian work in the 21st century: balancing the survival and moral imperatives for NGOs: a case of Uganda Red Cross Society
(East African Nature & Science Organization, 2025-05-30) Akol Joseph; Musinguzi Denis
Today’s NGO is a large corporate undertaking in systems and structure in comparison to the early days of a small, humble, locally connected one with a clear vision and mission focus (Gibson, 2019). It is a big service provider dependent on funding from institutional donors rather than individuals or the public. It has elaborate structures for operations, procurement and supply chain management, public relations and communications, fund-raising and business development services (BDS), internal audit and accounting, human resources (HR), monitoring and evaluation, community engagement and feedback receipt, and implementation (Cooley and Ron, 2002; Gibson, 2019). It is staffed with thematic specialists who implement short-term niche complex programmes and projects with tight deliverables, budgets, and timelines. Its staff, while dedicated, suffer from dilemmas of balancing moral motivations and efficient implementation of discrete projects that they are assigned to implement, and the processes needed to operate large-scale undertakings (Gibson, 2019). This is, rather, rational behaviour in response to their existential pressures created by today's market conditions. This has created cracks in the heart of the NGO sector. Identity, mission, and public trust are being threatened by the resultant pressure as increased corporatization, enterprise culture, and principal-agent (P-A) relationships gain momentum in NGO operations (Salamon, 2003). NGOs need to preserve their values as they navigate the distinctiveness and survival imperatives. This article attempts to delve into how NGOs have attempted to balance these imperatives, drawing from an empirical review of the existing body of literature in the subject area and analysis of the set-up and operations of one large Relief Service NGO in Uganda -the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS).
South Korea’s Development Success: Lessons for Uganda
(African Journals Online, 2017) Musinguzi Denis
From a least developed and aid receiving country to a developed and donor country within six decades, South Korea represents one of the unprecedented world‘s phenomenal and remarkable development experience. A combination of political and economic elements has been the key driver behind Korea‘s development success. Traditional and contemporary factors worked symbiotically to accelerate Korea‘s miraculous economic development and rapid socio-economic transformation. Traditional factors include prodigious savings, focus on exports, investment in human and infrastructure capital, strong macroeconomic policies, and a capable government with a long-term development vision. Contemporary factors include effective economic planning, strong business-government links, investment in research and development, adaptable economic policies and an emphasis on tertiary education. Through effective usage of aid that it benefitted from, Korea now extends the same generosity to developing countries, including Uganda. The article explores this unprecedented and ‗miraculous‘ experience, and draws lessons for Uganda and other developing countries.

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