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    Earth charter: a beacon of African youth for a sustainable planet
    (Springer Singapore, 2025) Kamugisha, Marsiale
    Africa 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.
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    Democratic consolidation and intelligence oversight in Uganda: implications for emerging democracies
    (LAMBERT Academic Publishing (LAP), 2017-04-04) Asiimwe, Solomon Muchwa
    The 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.
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    Creaducation: a Focus on Dynamic Education for Development in Uganda.
    (Uganda Martyrs Univrsity: Mtafiti Mwafrika Monograph Series., 2017) Najjuka, Salome
    In 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.
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    Rememberance, Reconcilliation, and reintegration: Living the healing of war memories in Northern Uganda
    (Uganda Martyrs Univrsity Book Serries (UMU BS), 2017) Kabiito, Bendicto; Angucia, Margaret
    This 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.