Uganda

Grassroots Reconciliation Group

To promote peace and reintegration, the Grassroots Reconciliation Group (GRG), provide opportunities and helps rehabilitate former child soldiers and their home communities in northern Uganda. The ex-combatants join with community members to work on GRG projects such as communal farming, brick-making, and volunteering at counseling centres. What makes GRG unique is that participants design the projects [...] Read more >>>

From the field Uganda: swapping guns for running shoes

The Marakwet and the Pokot communities of Kenya, and their cousins the Karamoja of Uganda, are pastoralist communities who inhabit the dry rangelands of the Northern Rift Valley where pastoralism is the major source of livelihood. The presence of government in this region is limited and the availability of state functions such as security and social services is barely existent. Over the years cases of cattle rustling and intercommunity conflicts have led to the loss of thousands of lives and the destruction of property of unknown value. Read more >>>

From the field Kwoyelo’s trial and Uganda’s search for justice

Civil society organisations working for peace, justice and reconciliation in Uganda have welcomed the trial of former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Colonel, Thomas Kwoyelo for atrocities he allegedly committed during the over two decade LRA insurgency in northern Uganda. Read more >>>

African Youth Peace Initiatives (AYPI)

African Youth Peace Initiatives (AYPI) works to develop peaceful and empowered young people who are able to create sustainable development in Uganda and Africa. The work is based on initiatives that promote a culture of non-violence, peace and sustainable development. AYPI work towards promoting good governance and addressing the root causes of violence and its [...] Read more >>>

The Populace Foundation Uganda (TPF-Uganda)

The Populace Foundation Uganda (TPF-Uganda) promotes reconciliation and peacebuilding amongst conflict-affected communities in north and north-east of Uganda. The organisations initiative’s focus on transforming the persistent acts of violence and indiscriminate killings by Karimojong warriors. Other initiatives of the organisation include: HIV/AIDS prevention & control programmes aimed at sensitising communities about HIV/ AIDS and other STIs. [...] Read more >>>

From the field Ugandan Election 2011: Local Peacebuilders Speak Out

Ugandans head to the polls in four days time to cast their ballot to elect a new president and members of parliament. The 18 February election this Friday is considered one of Uganda’s most hotly contested multiparty elections in the history of the country. Seven presidential candidates are vying to unseat Uganda’s longest serving leader, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, and end his 26 year reign. Many political observers, civil society organisations, and local peacebuilders, had warned that this election might turn violent but the campaigns have thus far been uncharacteristically “peaceful”. Stephen Oola, Uganda Local Correspondent, caught up with Charles Toolit Atiya, a local peace builder, and Coordinator of the Northern Uganda Transitional Justice Working Group (NUTJWG) to ask his views about the forthcoming elections. Read more >>>

Give Me A Chance

Give Me A Chance was established to give children affected by conflict an opportunity to live a good and responsible life, bring peace, stability and sustainable development, and promote collaboration among all stakeholders. Their current programmes include child protection and crime prevention, civil peace and community building. Read more >>>

From the field Is Uganda ready for a peaceful, legitimate election?

The Opposition Candidates in Uganda have called for the postponement of the forthcoming presidential and general elections until Voter’s cards are issued to over four million newly-registered voters to avert a possible crisis. This call was made at a joint press conference held in Kampala addressed by four opposition candidates. Read more >>>

Interview The Peacebuilding Podcast: Stephen Oola on Ugandan Elections

In the second episode of The Peacebuilding Podcast, local correspondent for Uganda, Stepehn Oola, talks about the upcoming elections. In 48 years of independence Uganda has yet to have a peaceful, democratic transfer of power. Stephen describes the fears of violence, the impact of the LRA, and the role civil society is playing to ensure a peaceful, free, and fair election period in 2011. Read more >>>

From the field Religious leaders in Uganda Urges Electoral Commission to Expedite Release of Voters Register

The Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC), a local inter-faith peacebuilding organisation in Uganda had called the Electoral Commission (EC) to move quickly and release the Voters register to harness credibility and demonstrate its readiness to organise a free, fair and peaceful elections. In his appeal to the Chairman of the EC, UJCC Executive Secretary, the Rev. Fr. Dr. Silverster Arinaitwe Rwomukubwe called for the postponement of nomination of presidential candidates which ended on Tuesday, October 26. Read more >>>