Drawing on the concept of hermeneutics the book argues that the successes and setbacks of conflict transformation in Teso can be understood through analyzing the impact of memory, identity, closure and power on social change and calls for a comprehensive effort of dealing with the past in war-torn societies.
Author(s): Susanne Buckley-Zistel
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 224
Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Glossary......Page 11
Interviewees......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Introduction......Page 22
Analysing the termination of violent conflicts and social change......Page 24
The structure of the book......Page 26
Methodology......Page 32
1 Violent Conflicts and Their Termination......Page 33
Violent conflicts in Africa......Page 34
Different approaches to terminating violent conflicts......Page 36
2 Inventing War and Peace......Page 51
Inventing war......Page 52
Inventing peace......Page 59
A hermeneutic framework for analysis......Page 72
The Teso region of Uganda......Page 75
Colonialism in Teso......Page 78
Independent Uganda......Page 84
The beginning of the insurgency......Page 86
Uganda under Museveni......Page 90
4 Mediation and the Creation of Peace in Teso......Page 95
Mediation in Teso......Page 97
Mediation and the end of the insurgency......Page 113
5 Narrating the Cause of the Teso Insurgency......Page 116
Poverty, disillusion and anger......Page 117
Narratives, identity and memory......Page 119
Competing narratives in Teso......Page 120
The Mukura memorial......Page 132
Inventing Papa Emorimor......Page 138
Teso in-between war and peace......Page 142
7 Conflict Termination and the Absence of Transformation in Teso......Page 144
Identities, remembering, closure and power......Page 145
Limits of traditional conflict management......Page 152
Transitional justice......Page 154
Reconciliation......Page 159
Unification......Page 162
Notes......Page 167
Bibliography......Page 192
C......Page 207
D......Page 208
G......Page 209
I......Page 210
N......Page 211
S......Page 212
Z......Page 213
