Yesterday we have been trying to locate each other’s work in the political. Therewith exploring the political in the broad sense and deepen our understanding of each other’s activities. It displayed the many different perspectives, approaches, forms of engagement and tools the different participants use. For instance the anti-...

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What does a transition from emergency to recovery look like for Acholi people? Of course, to leave the camps and returning to villages is a major change for most of the people. Also a change in government structures is taking place. And I am extremely interested to follow that process in the next one and half years, hoping that the transitio...

The political divide between Southern and Northern Uganda is often cited. The North has not only felt politically marginalised, but also in socio-economic terms. Norbert Mao, chairman of Gulu district, explained in an interview with The Observer (18 July 2009) how the North was structurally neglected in the allocation of resources. The North...

From 2001 to 2002, over 90% of the population of the Acholi sub-region became internally displaced as the result of a government order. It led to a humanitarian crisis that remained hardly unnoticed for some time and from 2003 onwards the region saw an influx of international humanitarian actors. Since 2 years ago, the region is again stable...

One of my objectives this month is to map out differences between sub-counties in the northern region in terms of how heavily they were affected by LRA atrocities. This turns out to be quite a challenge! I carry around maps of the area. The leader of a national NGO in Kampala is one of the many people I ask to mark LRA presence and hot-spots...