A5024635055- African history and culture analysis
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Cambodian History and Society
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Global Security and Public Health
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Law in Society and Culture
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- International Law and Human Rights
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Human Rights and Development
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
London School of Economics and Political Science
2015-2024
Ghent University
2021-2022
Broadmoor Hospital
1940
HM Prison Service
1940
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Women are often understood to be highly marginalised in typical African customary land regimes. The research presented this article found that the Acholi region of northern Uganda is not case. crisis conflict followed twenty-year lra insurgency and mass rural displacement has seemingly passed, notwithstanding a minimal contribution from formal justice, law order sector: local state actors as well clan elders mediating adjudicating disputes on basis custom. However some social institutions,...
This paper draws on fieldwork conducted in 2011 and 2016 to explore the differing experiences of Karamojong women following Government Uganda's most recent disarmament programme. Besides being deprived their guns, communities have lost cattle which livelihoods way life were centred. The study assesses whether or not women's experience patriarchy has changed these new circumstances, and, if so, how this impacts security control resources, absence them. It maps, using information primarily...
Abstract Collaborative autoethnography can function as a means of reclaiming certain African realities that have been co-opted by colonial epistemes and language. This be significant in very concrete ways: northern Uganda is suffering catastrophic loss tree cover, much which taking place on the collective family landholdings academia development sector categorized “customary land.” A collaboration ten members such landholding families, known Acholi Land Lab, explores what ownership” to them...
Access to land for the Acholi people of northern Uganda still has much in common with understandings pre-colonial situation. This paper reflects on how collective landholding faced over a century hostile policy promoting as private property. The notion coloniality arises this confrontation: failure communication ensuing from understanding social ordering terms false entities; and foregrounding object. durability colonial mechanisms emerges processes such codification principles practices...
Discussions on African responses to Covid-19 have focused the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, armed groups. This paper investigates how pandemic provided opportunities for claims contests over power in Uganda, Democratic Republic Congo, South Sudan. Ethnographic research used contend that local forms authority can be akin miniature sovereigns, able interpret dictates, policies,...
This research project explored how refugee community organisations (RCOs) could become more involved in the government's health agenda to improve level of consultation and responsiveness design provision mental services for ethnic minorities. The method a review relevant literature, interviews with organisation leaders workers, survey service users' involvement RCOs. found that causes effects ill refugees as understood by interviewees were consistent much literature this area. needs are very...
Abstract Lower state courts are the focus of both international and national access to justice policies programs but remain understudied in Uganda. Drawing on 3 years ethnographically informed research citizen engagement with a busy magistrates' court post-war northern Uganda, we show diverse reasons why citizens appeal rule-of-law places where authority is contested. In context limited statehood, against backdrop high-levels corruption inefficiency judicial system, people turn lower for...
This special issue explores post-conflict recovery in northern Uganda from the perspective of survivors themselves. Normative notions resilience are widely critiqued as reductive, depoliticising and simplistic. Although papers here, based on ethnographic methodologies, largely sympathetic to this understanding, they also suggest that consideration should not be abandoned. The offer insights into how communities' experiences strategies often diverge ambitions international actors. They...