Place-making and the everyday lives of children born into the Lord’s Resistance Army

Stewart, Beth

doi:10.1080/14733285.2020.1713994

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“…Once ‘home’, many children experience stigma and social isolation (Akello, 2013; MacDonald and Kerali, 2020; Musaka, 2017), often in retaliation for the harm the LRA inflicted on the community during the war (Akello, 2019). Acholi society is based on a patrilineal system, where children are typically raised in paternal clans, with their identity and well-being found there, and so, not knowing their paternal clan compounds the children’s sense of non-belonging (Stewart, 2020). The conflict damaged the social fabric of Acholi society, tarnishing relationships within extended kinship networks expected to accommodate children from the same clan (Kiconco and Nthakomwa, 2018).…”

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Securing the Future: Transformative Justice and Children ‘Born of War’

Baines

Oliveira

2020

Social & Legal Studies

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Children born as the result of conflict related sexual violence often embody painful memories of war-affected communities. As a result, children ‘born of war’ experience abuse and neglect, social isolation and a sense of never-belonging. Existing scholarship grapples with the challenges of seeking justice for children ‘born of war’ given the complex ways their suffering is entangled with that of so many other victims. In post-conflict northern Uganda, a community-based organization composed of survivors of forced marriage and motherhood collectively seeks justice for their children in a process locally referred to as child tracing. The Women’s Advocacy Network brings together differently affected victim groups to help identify the paternal relatives of their children, mediate conflict and transform fractious relationships in order to secure a future for their children. Through this process, children who once divided communities, propel a collective reach towards justice.

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Securing the Future: Transformative Justice and Children ‘Born of War’

Baines

Oliveira

2020

Social & Legal Studies

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“…While not contradictory to reintegration, belonging (or conversely exclusion) is a facet of reintegration that is expounded on in this paper and builds on the efforts of Angucia (2010), McIntyre (2005) and Honwana (2006) to elucidate a nexus between rehabilitation, reintegration and reconciliation. This is to say that while belonging and exclusion have important ramifications for the reintegration of CAYP into their families and communities, they can also be understood as significant to the broader processes of post-conflict rehabilitation and reconciliation (as argued by Stewart 2017).…”

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“…The argument presented thus far is that changes in the family's structure and function can contribute to a broader sense of exclusion amongst young people. The internalisation of this lack of belonging creates challenges in the ability to negotiate a strong sense of place in families and wider communities (Stewart 2017). Social exclusion is also commonly cited as a driver of insecurity and vulnerability for youth more broadly (van Kessel & Abbink 2005; Agbiboa 2015; Martuscelli & Villa 2018).…”

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“…I will highlight how the conflict and post-conflict initiatives have impacted the degree to which this family environment is either conducive to a sense of belonging or facilitates exclusions. As Stewart (2017) argues, a strong sense of belonging is central to the Acholi post-war efforts to reclaim the physical spaces that had been affected by the violence and upheaval of conflict. Belonging is therefore intimately connected to the ability of young people in northern Uganda to overcome the challenges of a post-war context.…”

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Post-conflict initiatives and the exclusion of conflict-affected young people in northern Uganda

Dixon

2021

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Young people are among the most severely impacted by conflict and as such many post-conflict initiatives are aimed at assisting them. Yet the impacts of these initiatives on young people's ability to successfully overcome the adversity they faced during conflict are not fully understood. This paper attempts to examine these impacts by conceptualising post-conflict initiatives as enmeshed within young people's social environments. It argues that post-conflict initiatives are intimately connected to broader processes of exclusion from social systems such as the family. While these systems had previously served to protect young people against adversity, conflict and post-conflict initiatives have disrupted their ability to continue this mission. In particular, the structure and function of the family system are examined to demonstrate the types of disruptions that have taken place that have ultimately negatively impacted the landscape in which young people develop.

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“…(see for example Apio, 2016;Baines, 2017;Porter, 2017;Stewart, 2017;Atim et al, 2018, p. 68). Some of the mothers reported that upon return, their families had been killed or displacedthe result of which was life in poverty, and inability to fend for their children.…”

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“Every Child Is Special…”: Perspectives on the Integration of Children Born of War and Their War-Affected Peers at a Local School in Northern Uganda

Ojok

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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This article examines the circumstances of 16 Children Born of War (CBOW) who participated in a classroom activity designed to understand their experiences of integration at a local school in post war northern Uganda. The children are part of a generation of returnees who were conceived as a result of sexual violence and forced marriages between the commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and young girls abducted from their communities. The research at the Alur Primary School (APS) articulates the children's views, and how this one school managed to integrate CBOW and war-affected children, treating each as special, to advance their learning and their education. Specifically, each of the 181 war-affected children involved in the class activity was given a chance to recall key moments of their time at APS. Their write-ups were analyzed into themes illustrating what happened when CBOW were integrated into the school, and how the school responded to their educational needs. The activity did not isolate CBOW from their non-CBOW peers, hence giving every child the opportunity to freely express their views regardless of their background. This article contributes to our understanding of how schools, as one of the most influential institutions that shape the development of children, can foreground the voices of CBOW as beneficiaries of education and actors in their own right.

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Place-making and the everyday lives of children born into the Lord’s Resistance Army

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Securing the Future: Transformative Justice and Children ‘Born of War’

Securing the Future: Transformative Justice and Children ‘Born of War’

Post-conflict initiatives and the exclusion of conflict-affected young people in northern Uganda

“Every Child Is Special…”: Perspectives on the Integration of Children Born of War and Their War-Affected Peers at a Local School in Northern Uganda

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