For most of northern Uganda's two-decade civil war, which lasted from 1986 until 2006, Gulu was an island of relative security in the midst of the violence that wracked the rest of Acholiland.1 Although a centre of internal displacement, with over 130,000 people crowded into a space meant for a...

For the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Globally praised as an 'African success story' and heavily backed by international financial institutions, development agencies and bilateral donors, the country has become an exemplar of economic and...

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Traditional justice, or what this article refers to as ‘ethnojustice’, claims to promote social reconstruction, peace and justice after episodes of war by rebuilding traditional order. Ethnojustice has become an increasingly prominent mode of transitional justice in...</p>

This paper begins by exploring the unique place of Gulu Town within the 20-year civil war in northern Uganda (1986–2006). It describes the conditions faced by the large internally displaced population of Gulu during the war and explains why the town has remained relatively stable despite...