Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region

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Complex dynamics of peace and conflict in Africa

Driven by genocide, civil war, political instabilities, ethnic and pastoral hostilities, the African Great Lakes Region, primarily Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi, has been overwhelmingly defined by conflict. Kenneth Omeje, Tricia Redeker Hepner, and an international group of scholars, many from the Great Lakes region, focus on the interlocking conflicts and efforts toward peace in this multidisciplinary volume. These essays present a range of debates and perspectives on the history and politics of conflict, highlighting the complex internal and external sources of both persistent tension and creative peacebuilding. Taken together, the essays illustrate that no single perspective or approach can adequately capture the dynamics of conflict or offer successful strategies for sustainable peace in the region.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region Kenneth Omeje and Tricia Redeker Hepner

Part I. The Great Lakes Region: Challenges of the Past and Present
1. Understanding the Diversity and Complexity of Conflict in the African Great Lakes Region
Kenneth Omeje
2. The History and Politics of Regionalism and Integration in East Africa
Hannington Ochwada
3. Multipolar Politics and Regional Integration in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Non-State Actors
Doreen Alusa

Part II. Case Studies of Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes
4. Historical Dynamics of Northern Uganda Conflict: A Longitudinal Struggle for Nation-Building
Elias Omondi Opongo
5. Kofi Annan's Conflict Resolution Model and Peacebuilding in Kenya
Alfred Anangwe
6. Justice versus Reconciliation: The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice in Kenya
Ozonnia Ojielo
7. Climate Change and Peacebuilding among Pastoralist Communities in Northeastern Uganda and Western Kenya
Julaina A. Obika and Harriet K. Bibangambah

Part III. Social and Cultural Dimensions of Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes
8. Media Sustainability in a Post-Conflict Environment: Radio Broadcasting in the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda
Marie-Soleil Frère
9. Youth in Transition: The Arts and Cultural Resonance in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
Lindsay M. McClain and Tricia Redeker Hepner
10. Gender Issues in Reintegration: A Feminist and Rights-Based Analysis of the Experiences of Formerly Abducted Child Mothers in Northern Uganda
Eric Awich Ochen
11. "The Ambivalence of the Sacred": Christianity, Genocide and Reconciliation in Rwanda Janine Natalya Clark

List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Violence in Society
• African Studies
• International Relations
• Social Science
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Sociologie, société et politique
• General officer
• Peace
• General
• Violence
• Paix

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 19 juin 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253008480
• Langue: English

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CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING IN THE AFRICAN GREAT LAKES REGION
CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING IN THE AFRICAN GREAT LAKES REGION
Edited by Kenneth Omeje and Tricia Redeker Hepner
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Conflict and peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region / edited by Kenneth Omeje and Tricia Redeker Hepner.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-00837-4 (cloth : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-00842-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-00848-0 (ebook) 1. Peace-building-Great Lakes Region (Africa) 2. Peace-building-Africa, East. 3. Postwar reconstruction-Great Lakes Region (Africa) 4. Postwar reconstruction-Africa, East. 5. Conflict management-Great Lakes Region (Africa) 6. Conflict management-Africa, East. I. Omeje, Kenneth C. II. Redeker Hepner, Tricia M.
JZ5584.G74C66 2013
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Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Foreign Terms
Introduction: Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region \ Kenneth Omeje and Tricia Redeker Hepner
Part I. The Great Lakes Region: Challenges of the Past and Present
1 Understanding the Diversity and Complexity of Conflict in the African Great Lakes Region \ Kenneth Omeje
2 The History and Politics of Regionalism and Integration in East Africa \ Hannington Ochwada
3 Multipolar Politics and Regional Integration in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Nonstate Actors \ Doreen Alusa
Part II. Case Studies of Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes
4 Historical Dynamics of the Northern Uganda Conflict: A Longitudinal Struggle for Nation Building \ Elias Omondi Opongo
5 Kofi Annan s Conflict Resolution Model and Peacebuilding in Kenya \ Alfred Anangwe
6 Justice versus Reconciliation: The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice in Kenya \ Ozonnia Ojielo
7 Climate Change and Peacebuilding among Pastoralist Communities in Northeastern Uganda and Western Kenya \ Julaina A. Obika and Harriet K. Bibangambah
Part III. Social and Cultural Dimensions of Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes
8 Media Sustainability in a Postconflict Environment: Radio Broadcasting in the DRC, Burundi, and Rwanda \ Marie-Soleil Fr re
9 Youth in Transition: The Arts and Cultural Resonance in Postconflict Northern Uganda \ Lindsay McClain Opiyo and Tricia Redeker Hepner
10 Gender Issues in Reintegration: A Feminist and Rights-Based Analysis of the Experiences of Formerly Abducted Child-Mothers in Northern Uganda \ Eric Awich Ochen
11 The Ambivalence of the Sacred : Christianity, Genocide, and Reconciliation in Rwanda \ Janine Natalya Clark
Index
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments

W E ARE PLEASED to acknowledge the help we received from different quarters in putting together this book project. Our first debt of gratitude goes to the British Council/Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE) of the UK government for providing the enabling research grant, without which this project would likely not have been undertaken. Pauline Gangla, George Kogolla, and Dyonis Ndungu of the British Council DelPHE Program Management team in Nairobi, Kenya, deserve a special mention for efficiently facilitating the project grant administration, thereby enabling us to not only accomplish this book project, but to complete diverse capacity-building program activities in the three African project partner universities: United States International University (USIU) in Kenya, Gulu University in Uganda, and the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
We are exceptionally grateful to colleagues at USIU in Nairobi, especially Moses Onyango, Doreen Alusa, John Mwangi, Prof. Macharia Munene, Prof. Fredrick Iraki, Prof. James Kahindi, and Prof. Munyae Mulinge. At the University of Tennessee we thank Prof. Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Julia Hanebrink, Randal Hepner, and all those involved in Jazz for Justice and the Gulu Study and Service Abroad Program in both Tennessee and Uganda for their professional and moral support.
To all the chapter contributors and manuscript reviewers, we say a big thank you for your commitment and professionalism.
Abbreviations

ABP
Burundi Press Agency
ACP
African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States
ACRWC
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
ADFL
Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo
APROSOMA
Association for the Social Betterment of the Masses
ASP
Afro-Shirazi Party
AU
African Union
AU-ACPPDT
African Union s African Charter for Popular Participation in Development and Transformation
BBC
British Broadcasting Corporation
CAR
Central African Republic
CARSA
Christian Action for Reconciliation and Social Assistance
CBOs
community-based organizations
CDR
Comite pour la D fense de la R publique
CEEAC
Communaut Economique des Etats de l Afrique Centrale
CEMAC
Communaut Economique et Mon taire de l Afrique Central
CENI
National Independent Electoral Commission
CEWS
Continental Early Warning System
CMD
Centre for Multiparty Democracy
CNDD
National Council for the Defense of Democracy
CNDD-FDD
National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy
COMESA
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern African States
CEPGL
Communaut Economique de Pays des Grand Lacs
CPA
Comprehensive Peace Agreement
CRC
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
DDR
demobilization, demilitarization, and reintegration
DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo
EAC
East African Community
EACB
East African Currency Board
EACSO
East African Common Services Organization
EACSOF
East African Civil Society Organizations Forum
EACT
East African Community Treaty
EAHC
East African High Commission
ECK
Electoral Commission of Kenya
ECOWAS
Economic Community of West African States
FAR
Rwandan Army
FDD
Hutu Force for the Defense of Democracy
FRODEBU
Front for Democracy in Burundi
GOU
Government of Uganda
HDI
Human Development Index
HPI
Human Poverty Index
HSM
Holy Spirit Movement
HSMF
Holy Spirit Mobile Force
ICC
International Criminal Court
ICGLR
International Conference on the Great Lakes Region
ICTJ
International Center for Transitional Justice
ICTR
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
IDPs
internally displaced persons
IEBC
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
IFASIC
Institut Facultaire des Sciences de l Information et la Communication
IGAD
Intergovernmental Authority for Development
IGOs
international governmental organizations
IMM
Implementation and Management Mechanisms
IPP
Institut Panos Paris
JED
Journalise en danger
JIG
Joint Liaison Group
KADU
Kenyan African Democratic Union
KALIP
Karamoja Livelihoods Programme
KANU
Kenyan African National Union
KIDP
Karamojong Integrated Disarmament and Development Programme
KPR
Kenya Police Reserve
KPTJ
Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice
KPU
Kenyan People s Union
LPA
Lagos Plan of Action
LRA
The Lord s Resistance Army
MINURCA
United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic
MNCs
multinational corporations
MONUC/MONUSCO
Peacekeeping Mission in the Congo
MOUCECORE
Mouvement Chr tien pour l Evang lisation, le Counseling et la R conciliation
MPs
members of parliament
NAP
Uganda National Action Plan
NARC
the National Rainbow Coalition
NEMU
the National Election Monitoring Unit
NGOs
Nongovernmental Organizations
NRA
National Resistance Army
NRA/M
National Resistance Army/Movement
NRM
National Resistance Movement
NRT
New Regionalism Theory
OAU
Organization of African Unity
ODM
Orange Democratic Movement
ORINFOR
Rwandan Office for Information
PALIPEHUTU
Party for the Liberation of the Hutu People
PARMEHUTU
Party of the Movement of Hutu Emancipation
PDC
Christian Democratic Party
PNU