Keyword Archives: human rights
The Scramble for Cattle, Power and Guns in Karamoja
This new report on the Karamoja Cluster of Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, and Ethiopia is the result of several years of field work by a respected Teso elder from the region with assistance from a Turkana woman. Dr. Akabwai, the lead author, has over thirty years of experience in the Karamoja Cluster, where he started working as a large animal veterinarian in the early 1970s. Based on his extensive contacts within local communities, Dr. Akabwai was able to gain access to privileged information on the weapons trade and cattle raiding that underpin the widespread insecurity across the larger region. Ms. Ateyo’s participation in the research facilitated access to women of all ages. The result is a unique and thorough examination and analysis that includes gendered and generational perspectives.
Responding to Violence in Ikotos County, South Sudan
This report from an understudied area details the effects of and responses to violence in Ikotos County in Eastern Equatoria in Southern Sudan. The author, from Southern Sudan himself, draws upon five years of experience, observation and interviews in Ikotos and supplements this information with data from interviews with local officials and community groups.
Making Reintegration Work for Youth in Northern Uganda
New survey data on war-affected youth suggest that past approaches and programs are insufficient to meet the needs of youth newly returning from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) as well as those who have already returned.
Challenges to Peace and Recovery in Darfur
The paper presents a livelihoods conceptual framework that allows an integrated and coherent analysis of livelihoods in Darfur. The Darfur Peace Accord is full of references to livelihoods and the importance of addressing those conditions that hamper sustainable livelihoods for different groups in order to achieve peace and recovery. The paper explains the advantages of a livelihoods analysis in this context, including its capacity to bring together and make manageable complex yet related strands relating to the wider political economy of conflict, its regional dimensions, relevant customary law and institutions, markets and trade etc.
Beating Wives and Protecting Culture: Violent Responses to Women’s Awakening of their Rights
By Khristopher Carlson and Dyan Mazurana. Humanitarian Practice Network, November/December, 2006.
Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping
By Dyan Mazurana, Angela Raven-Roberts, and Jane Parpart (eds.). 2005. Rowman & Littlefield: Oxford & Boulder.
Where are the Girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique: Their Lives During and After War
By Susan McKay and Dyan Mazurana. 2004. International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, Montréal, Canada. (Published in English and French)
Do Women Matter in Peacekeeping? Women in Police, Military, and Civilian Peacekeeping Components
By Dyan Mazurana. 2003 (March). Canadian Woman Studies Journal.
Child Soldiers: What About the Girls?
By Dyan Mazurana and Susan McKay. 2001. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, September/October.
Land and Human Rights in South Africa
By Elizabeth Stites. Forum, December 1998.

