Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda Remembering after Violence

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ISBN: 9780230537620 | 0230537626
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/15/2008

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Drawing on the concept of hermeneutics the book argues that the successes and setbacks of conflict transformation in Teso can be understood through analyzing the impact of memory, identity, closure and power on social change and calls for a comprehensive effort of dealing with the past in war-torn societies.

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Abbreviations	p. ix
Glossary	p. x
Interviewees	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Analysing the termination of violent conflicts and social change	p. 3
The structure of the book	p. 5
Methodology	p. 11
Violent Conflicts and Their Termination	p. 12
Violent conflicts in Africa	p. 13
Different approaches to terminating violent conflicts	p. 15
Inventing War and Peace	p. 30
Inventing war	p. 31
Inventing peace	p. 38
A hermeneutic framework for analysis	p. 51
Effective History and the Beginning of the Teso Insurgency	p. 54
The Teso region of Uganda	p. 54
Colonialism in Teso	p. 57
Independent Uganda	p. 63
The beginning of the insurgency	p. 65
Uganda under Museveni	p. 69
Mediation and the Creation of Peace in Teso	p. 74
Mediation in Teso	p. 76
Mediation and the end of the insurgency	p. 92
Narrating the Cause of the Teso Insurgency	p. 95
Poverty, disillusion and anger	p. 96
Narratives, identity and memory	p. 98
Competing narratives in Teso	p. 99
Facing Past and Future after the Teso Insurgency	p. 111
The Mukura memorial	p. 111
Inventing Papa Emorimor	p. 117
Teso in-between war and peace	p. 121
Conflict Termination and the Absence of Transformation in Teso	p. 123
Identities, remembering, closure and power	p. 124
Limits of traditional conflict management	p. 131
Dealing with the Past of Violent Conflicts	p. 133
Transitional justice	p. 133
Reconciliation	p. 138
Unification	p. 141
Notes	p. 146
Bibliography	p. 171
Index	p. 186
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