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Acholi Without Roots: Categorizing the Displaced in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda

Acholi Without Roots: Categorizing the Displaced in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
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Author(s): Stevens Aguto Odongoh (Makerere University, Uganda)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 19
Source title: Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus (Independent Researcher, France), Stevens Aguto Odongoh (Makerere University, Uganda)and Amal Adel Abdrabo (Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Egypt)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4438-9.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter interrogates historical processes with war and displacement resulting from armed rebellion between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the government of Uganda between 1987-2007 that created contesting notions of being Acholi. The chapter shows how Acholi war trajectories experienced through taking refuge amongst other societies, conscription into warfare of mainly child abductees, and encampment divided the current Acholi into new imaginaries and solidarities. Lasting for over two decades, the LRA war led to the emergence of different cultures based on the different life pathways that Acholi took during violence and displacement: the culture of camps or IDPs (donation, food aid, governmental/humanitarian organizations' assistance) and the culture of war (forceful abduction of children and recruitment into rebel forces and militias).

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