RT Article
T1 'The cooling of hearts': community truth-telling in Northern Uganda
JF Human rights review
VO 13
IS 1
SP 107
OP 124
A1 Anyeko, Ketty
A1 Baines, Erin K. 1969-
A1 Komakech, Emon
A1 Ojok, Boniface
A1 Ogora, Lino Owor
A1 Victor, Letha
A2 Baines, Erin K. 1969-
A2 Komakech, Emon
A2 Ojok, Boniface
A2 Ogora, Lino Owor
A2 Victor, Letha
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/689348894
AB Recent national and international debates on truth and reconciliation in Uganda have emphasized the importance of incorporating local-level mechanisms into a national transitional justice strategy. The Juba Peace Talks represented an opportunity to develop and articulate sufficient and just alternatives and complementary mechanisms to the international criminal model. The most commonly debated mechanism is the Acholi process known as mato oput (drinking the bitter root), a restorative justice approach to murder. Drawing on 2 months of research in nine internally displaced persons’ camps in 2007, we examine local justice practices in the region of northern Uganda to consider their potential, promise and pitfalls to realizing a successful truth-telling process. We find that although local mechanisms could help facilitate reconciliation in the region, truth-telling is but one part of a conciliatory process complicated by a national context of fear and the complexity of the victim–perpetrator identity at the community level. These locally informed insights help move forward the debate on such mechanisms in Uganda and add useful insights into community processes in the field of transitional justice more generally.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 123-124
K1 Community based transitional justice
K1 truth telling
K1 Northern Uganda
K1 Lord's Resistance Army
DO 10.1007/s12142-011-0202-2