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Gender Justice Dialogue

Gender and Transitional Justice in Uganda: Opportunities and Challenges

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Gender Justice Dialogue
Participants during the gender justice dialogue in Gulu

The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), in collaboration with the Justice and Reconciliation Project (JRP), held a one-day dialogue on opportunities and challenges for gender and transitional justice (TJ) on Tuesday, September 27, 2011, at Churchill Courts in Gulu, northern Uganda. The event was attended by 33 participants from across the greater North, including Teso, Lango and Acholi sub-regions. Facilitators shared presentations on a range of topics relating to gender, including a review of the existing domestic and international frameworks, an analysis on the potential of domestic courts to try sexual and gender-based crimes, mainstreaming gender in traditional justice and truth-seeking processes, prospects of engendering TJ in Uganda through JLOS, protecting women’s rights in a post-conflict setting, a review of reparations and reconstruction programs from a women’s rights perspective, and building consensus and a way forward. Throughout the dialogue, there were also opportunities for participants to share their views and experiences and ask questions or provide comments on the facilitators’ presentations. The majority of participant feedback is captured in the four Reactions sections of this report.

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What Became of Reparations?

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ICTJ JRP Reparations Dialogue 25Aug2011
JRP's Lino Owor Ogora gives leads the stocktaking exercise at the reparations dialogue

The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), in collaboration with the Justice and Reconciliation Project (JRP) and the Soroti Development Association & NGOs Network (SODANN), held a one-day dialogue on reparations for victims of conflict in northern Uganda on Thursday, August 25, 2011, at Landmark Hotel in Soroti. The event was attended by 25 participants from across the greater North, including Teso, Lango, Acholi, Karamoja and West Nile sub-regions. Facilitators shared presentations on a range of topics relating to reparations, including a conceptual overview of reparations programmes, engendering reparations, international and domestic legal frameworks for reparations, stocktaking in the represented sub-regions, victims’ perspectives, the Kenyan experience, the relationship between reparations and development projects and building consensus and a way forward. Throughout the event, there were also opportunities for participants to share their views and experiences and ask questions or provide comments on the facilitators’ presentations. The majority of participant feedback is captured in the five Discussion sections of this report.

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Gender and TJ CSO Dialogue

Gender and TJ CSO Dialogue, 27 Sept 2011

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On September 27, 2011, JRP and ICTJ partnered to hold a one-day civil society dialogue on engendering transitional justice in Uganda. It focused on challenges and opportunities for a gender sensitive TJ program in Uganda, and participants developed a list of recommendations for the Government of Uganda and stakeholders. A report on the dialogue is forthcoming. The dialogue was held at Churchill Courts in Gulu and attended by over 30 participants from Acholi, Lango and Teso sub-regions.

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The skull of a victim rests at the Barlonyo massacre site, 2006

We Can’t Be Sure Who Killed Us: Memory and Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda

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The skull of a victim rests at the Barlonyo massacre site, 2006
The skull of a victim rests at the Barlonyo massacre site, 2006

A Joint Report by JRP and the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)

With funding from the Austrian Development Cooperation

Written by: Julian Hopwood

 This report examines the role memorials have played in Uganda’s transitional justice process. Addressed to community members, conflict survivors, policymakers, and donors, it reviews existing memorials and offers recommendations to those seeking to initiate new memorial activities. It is based on research conducted in the Acholi and Lango sub-regions of northern Uganda, involving the eponymous ethnic groups.

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