Keyword Archives: justice
Accountability and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda
By Khristopher Carlson and Dyan Mazurana. 2010. Sharanjeet Parmar, Mindy Jane Roseman, Saudamini Siegrist, and Theo Sowa (eds.) Children and Transitional Justice: Truth-Telling, Accountability and Reconciliation. Harvard University Press.
Posted in Book Chapters, Publications
Keywords: human rights, justice, security
Assessing Uganda’s cross-border pursuit of the Lord’s Resistance Army
This report informs the background to the current crisis in Uganda and discussions about whether local and international policy-makers should rely primarily on military force to protect civilians from the ongoing threat posed by the LRA.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: arms, conflict, human rights, justice, terrorism
Forced Marriage within the LRA, Uganda
“Forced Marriage within the Lord’s Resistance Army, Uganda” demonstrates that forced marriage includes acts codified as crimes in international customary and human rights law. These crimes include rape, sexual slavery, enforced pregnancy, forced labor, enslavement, and torture. However, the crime of forced marriage is unique from the above mentioned crimes, as it contains the element of forced conjugality.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: children, conflict, human rights, justice, war, women
The State of Female Youth in Northern Uganda
Youth have been both the primary victims and the primary actors in the twenty-two year war between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army. It was not clear, however, exactly who is suffering, how much, and in what ways. For instance, researchers knew little about the experience of youth: what is the magnitude, incidence, and nature of the violence, trauma, and suffering of youth in northern Uganda? An understanding of the effects of war on women and girls was particularly lacking, whether they were abducted or affected by the violence in other ways.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: children, conflict, human rights, humanitarian action, justice, SWAY, women
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.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: conflict, human rights, justice, violence, war
Coming to Terms with the Humanitarian Imperative in Iraq
Following a series of observations about how humanitarianism is currently perceived in Iraq, this report highlights findings regarding the operational environment, donor environment, and strategic policy environment.
Posted in Briefing Papers, Publications
Keywords: global war on terror, HA2015 Update, Humanitarian Agenda 2015, justice, war