RT Article
T1 How locally owned and sustainable are victims’ groups in postconflict and transitional settings?: reflections from northern Uganda
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 17
IS 2
SP 339
OP 347
A1 Schulz, Philipp
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/186005191X
AB Victims’ groups in postconflict settings have gained increasing attention in transitional justice scholarship and programming, as entry points for victims to engage with external transitional justice mechanisms, or as vehicles to facilitate healing, recovery or justice making on the micro level. These groups are often presented in terms of local ownership, victims’ participation and self-reliance. Based on work in Uganda, I have previously argued that victims’ groups constitute locally owned and sustainable resources that can facilitate a sense of justice for survivors on their own terms. Yet, based on recent field research observations, I have to ask myself: how locally owned and sustainable are these groups really? Due to a lack of donor support and external resources, the group that I worked with has become inactive since 2020. In this Note, I explore the reasons for and implications of this, with the intention of critically engaging with some of my previous arguments.
K1 Bewaffneter Konflikt
K1 Konflikt
K1 Auswirkung
K1 Opfer : Sozialpsychologie
K1 Gewalt
K1 Sexualverhalten
K1 Nichtstaatliche Organisation
K1 Transitional Justice
K1 Agency
K1 Survivors
K1 Uganda
K1 Victims
K1 Victims’ groups
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijad014