Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations
Date of Award
2024
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Halmos College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Conflict Resolution Studies
First Advisor
Ismael Muvingi
Second Advisor
Elena P. Bastidas
Third Advisor
Urszula Zanko
Keywords
Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution, Kaberamaido, Museveni, Teso subregion, Uganda
Abstract
After five years of protracted guerilla warfare, Uganda’s current President Yoweri Museveni capturedpower in January 1986, displacing the preceding regime that had been dominated by Northern politicians and Eastern Ugandans (army and police). Feeling humiliated, deprived, and out of government, several rebel insurgencies erupted, among which was the Uganda People’s Army in the Teso region. The experiences of the affected population at the hands of the army, rebels, and the Karamojong cattle raiders from the North East have remained largely unexplored, unheard, and undocumented outside of the region, and neither have how the victims made meaning of their conditions. The author undertook a phenomenological research into the lived experiences of the victims, and the initiatives and ways of coping they adopted. Overall, the participants went through various kinds of negative experiences, including bereavement; impoverishment; breakdown of culture and loss of dignity; abandonment and lack of support during and after the insurgency; and a sense of helplessness and desperation. These are all expressions of the voices of the victims of the insurgency. Yet, despite all this, they still felt the rebellion was justified, going by the humiliation, arrests, and the loss of political power and economic opportunities that the community went through when the new administration forcefully overthrew the previous regime. The researcher hopes that this report will be a useful ingredient in the comprehensive economic development and social transformation of the Teso region, and Uganda as a whole.
NSUWorks Citation
Lawrence Egulu. 2024. Giving Voice to the Victims of the Insurgency in Eastern Uganda in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s: A Phenomenological Research Study. Doctoral dissertation. Nova Southeastern University. Retrieved from NSUWorks, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Conflict Resolution Studies. (253)
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/253.
