ACCS Project newsletter. Gender violence is one of the numerous development challenges in post conflict societies and this manifests in form of rape, defilement, early marriage, wife battering, denial of rights and property grabbing among others. This is a case documentation of Paimol Sub County. The report contextualizes the realities, causes, effects, challenges and community recommendations to ending violence in Paimol; it also acknowledges that SGBV affects house hold development and post conflict recovery.
ACCS Project activity brief. This report highlights peculiar issues, prospects and challenges to post conflict recovery in the northern region that, if not taken care of, could cause a setback to post-conflict development and peace recovery. These include, resource based conflict, social and physical insecurity including conflicts in neighboring Congo and Southern Sudan, border control/smuggling and immigration issues leading to forced migration especially from Congo and Southern Sudan into Uganda.
ACCS) Project newsletter. By casting the Transitional Justice debate as a national project, the NRTJ Audit validation workshop raises the question of how post-conflict recovery in northern Uganda might be affected by or benefit from experiences and actors in other regions. This newsletter summarizes important cross-cutting conflict and TJ issues that were identified during the validation workshop, and also presents the emerging call for solidarity among CSOs working on national TJ issues. The final section analyses the implications of these findings for recovery in northern Uganda.
ACCS Project situation report. The land conflict in Lakang largely remains unresolved and has potentials of escalating into violence. Key finding is that the scenario in Lakang is unique and has been described by two major secrets. First is that, Government institutions is being used to grab land under the pretext that the land in question is a game reserve. The second secret is that, the disputed area potentially has mineral resource wealth - and to reduce cost of compensating the locals, it is better done through a single entity. What still remain unattended to is that nobody is willing to tell the truth.
ACCS Project newsletter. This Conflict Watch presents views from various stakeholders on the controversial initiative to issue Certificates of Customary Ownership to landowners in the Acholi Sub-region. A major highlight of this Roundtable Discussion was the opportunity to hear from experts on the legal, economic, political, social and cultural implications of CCOs. Participants raised many concerns triggered by this measure and also suggested possible action steps, which are summarized in this newsletter.
ACCS Project situation brief. This brief entail issues relating to resettlement, land ownership, and boundary dispute between Amuru and Adjumani district. This brief in particular addresses the current land dispute playing out in Apaa village between the residents of Amuru and Adjumani districts.It also highlights and provides in-depth understanding of the conflict causes and triggers, and presents the conflict time line, key actors involved and recommendation. This brief has been as a result of ongoing ACCS contextual analysis and field visits carried out in Apaa from 22nd to 25th August 2012.
