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    Africa Conflict Monitor -Tool of warfare and African social Crisis: The Epidemic of GenderBased Violence -ACM Interview with Catherine Akurut: Africa Wide -Informed Insights Interviews with Experts, 2016.
    (2016) Akurut, Catherine
    The use of rape as an instrument of terror against civilian populations and as a tool of warfare is as old as conflict itself. Gender-based violence in Africa is primarily a social ill addressed through educational programmes, public awareness campaigns and the criminal prosecution of perpetrators. None of these devices can be used in conflict zones during the heat of battle, although rape is a war crime for which there has been prosecution following conflicts. So widespread is gender-based violence in African societies and so deleterious the effects on the many victims that the crime canbe considered a public health issue. Catherine Akurut, an IOA consultant and conflict resolution practitioner based in Uganda, specialising in sexual violence, post-conflict reconstruction and terrorism in Africa, calls gender-based violence in Africa an "epidemic". ACM spoke with Ms Akurut about the many aspects of gender-based violence in conflict zones and normal society.
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    Improving the Secondary School Curriculum to Nurture Entrepreneurial Competences Among Students in Uganda
    (Science Publishing Group, 2014-08-30) Lugemwa, Peter
    There is need to design a secondary school curriculum that will contribute to the alleviation of the unemployment problem among the youth. Such a curriculum should inculcate entrepreneurial competences in addition to other employment competences. The country’s development strategy emphasizes the development of relevant competences of its people to enable them exploit and use the available resources gainfully and sustainably promote competitiveness, independence and self sustenance. Having the appropriate entrepreneurial competences would be critical in the exploitation of the resources that Uganda has and create new employment opportunities. The chronic unemployment problem in Uganda raises questions as to how well the education system prepares people for entrepreneurship as a career. In this article literature is reviewed to come up with suggestions of how to develop a curriculum that would enhance people’s entrepreneurial competences through the development of technical and industrial skills, general entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial personality characteristics.