Small Arms and Light Weapons Among Pastoral Groups in the Kenya-Uganda Border Area. By Kennedy Agade Mkutu. African Affairs, 2006.
Results of the author’s research into SALWs among pastoral groups in the Kenya-Uganda border area, and the long history of their ’spiral of violence’. [HTML]
‘Negotiating with Ghosts’: Religion, Conflict and Peace in Northern Uganda. By Paul Jackson. The Round Table, 2009.
This article outlines the current situation with regard to the Lord’s Resistance Army, the possibilities for peace in Northern Uganda, and the role of traditional justice systems and the ICC in ending the war. It concludes that justice in Northern Uganda requires an end to the false dichotomy of ‘traditional’ and ICC approaches and that the two must complement each other in order to address the different groups within the LRA and the Acholi population. [HTML]
Democracy and Peace-building: Re-thinking the Conventional Wisdom. By Howard Wolpe and Steve McDonald. The Round Table, 2008.
Drawing on their experiences promoting reconciliation in Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia, the authors explain their training techniques based on “experiential learning” and “interest-based negotiation.” The authors contend that challenges to building peace and democracy “lies not in sector specific institutional ‘fixes’, but, rather in bringing key leaders together in a long-term process…” A welcome evidence-based contribution to the literature on conflict mitigation.
Regulating the Private Security Sector: An Imperative for Security Sector Governance in Africa. By Jeffrey Isima. Journal of Security Sector Management, 2007.
An academic article on both the constructive and injurious roles private sector engagement has played in Africa’s security. The piece goes into an informative amount of detail about the nature of past public-private security partnerships and the often mixed results
