Women’s Land Claims in the Acholi Region of Northern Uganda: What Can Be Learned from What Is Contested

Hopwood, Julian

doi:10.1163/15718115-02203005

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“…All of these stories suggest, as Hopwood (2015) argues, that the land claims of Acholi women as daughters, sisters, and widows are often not respected by family and clan elders. Juliet's father supported her and her sisters.…”

Section: Marriage and Genealogical Generationsmentioning

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Generations and Access to Land in Postconflict Northern Uganda: “Youth Have No Voice in Land Matters”

Whyte¹,

Acio²

2017

Afr. stud. rev.

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Abstract:Generational tensions are one of the many forms that land conflicts take in northern Uganda. The convention in Acholiland was that young men gained land-use rights through their fathers and young women gained them through their husbands. This pattern of generational governance has become complicated in the wake of the civil war and decades of internment in IDP camps. Lacking husbands, young women are using land of their patrilateral kin, while young men who grew up with their mothers may use that of their matrilateral relatives. This article, based on fieldwork in the Acholi subregion between 2014 and 2016, explores classic anthropological concerns about gerontocracy and patriliny in a contemporary postconflict situation. It describes the discreet land access strategies of young men and women and the ways in which they seek to complement dependence on relatives by renting or buying land. The image of the “war generation” as morally spoiled is countered by an examination of the consequences of war and internment for young people’s claims to use land.

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Section: Marriage and Genealogical Generationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Generations and Access to Land in Postconflict Northern Uganda: “Youth Have No Voice in Land Matters”

Whyte¹,

Acio²

2017

Afr. stud. rev.

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“…Irrespective of whether this exclusion is a result of disruptions to the practice of culture or as a result of increasing economic strain, the ensuing result is the same as CAYP are denied rudimentary access to resources. Furthermore, as Hopwood (2013, 2015) has demonstrated, current land disputes are increasingly settled through recognition of customary communal land tenure, a type of ownership that is predicated on clan membership. For CAYP who are excluded from the family structure, such membership does not exist.…”

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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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“…The prevalent form of land tenure in the region is customary tenure (93 per cent of lands in Acholiland) [57,58]. The Agoro-Agu CFR is the geographical extension of the Imatong Mountains into the Northern region of Uganda from South Sudan [59].…”

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Analysing and Applying Stakeholder Perceptions to Improve Protected Area Governance in Ugandan Conservation Landscapes

Omoding¹,

Walters²,

Andama³

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Given the diversity of active institutions and stakeholders in a landscape, and the difficulties in ensuring inclusive decision-making, evaluating landscape governance can help surface and address underlying issues. In the context of two protected area landscapes in Uganda, where landscape approaches are being implemented through a wider project on landscape governance, we analyse stakeholder perceptions of inclusive decision-making and then use this evaluation to stimulate dialogue amongst stakeholder groups in each landscape. We ask, how can capturing, analysing, and collaboratively applying people’s perceptions address inclusive decision-making in landscape governance? We collected and analysed perceptions using SenseMaker®, a software package that enables analysis of micronarratives (stories) from the field based on how respondents classify their own stories, using triads, dyads, stones, and multiple-choice questions. This self-categorisation by the respondent reduces bias in the analysis and allows the micronarrative to be cross-examined in a variety of ways when analysed using Sensemaker. This analysis created an integrated view of the stakeholder’s perceptions about inclusive decision-making in landscape governance. The results show large portions of the respondents feel their voices are neglected, and management of the landscape is poor in Mount Elgon, while in Agoro-Agu, it is the opposite trend. During a community feedback process, reasons for these trends were discussed and solutions proposed. Some of the underlying factors include historical relationships with park authorities and displacement during park creation. To more precisely answer our research question, one could have extended stays in the communities studied in these landscapes, using ethnographic methods including interviews and participant observation; nonetheless, our method, including the feedback process, was an innovative and important way to confront our findings with the informants directly and foster collaborative action. We conclude that understanding people’s perceptions, including through participatory feedback, can significantly inform and improve management decisions, help resolve conflicts, and facilitate dialogue between different stakeholders in the landscape.

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Women’s Land Claims in the Acholi Region of Northern Uganda: What Can Be Learned from What Is Contested

Cited by 37 publications

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Generations and Access to Land in Postconflict Northern Uganda: “Youth Have No Voice in Land Matters”

Generations and Access to Land in Postconflict Northern Uganda: “Youth Have No Voice in Land Matters”

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

Analysing and Applying Stakeholder Perceptions to Improve Protected Area Governance in Ugandan Conservation Landscapes

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