'Frictions' and Forgiveness: NGOs and Community Transitional Justice in War-Affected Northern Uganda

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Uganda has suffered a brutal civil war for more than two decades. In recent years, international non-governmental organizations (iNGOs) have developed a huge presence in the region. They are engaged in development, peacebuilding, and emergency relief programs. How does this unevenly transplanted iNGO regime, including its discourse, projects, culture, and social and political agendas interface ... read morewith survivors' community transitional justice process? What unintended, new arrangements in power, culture and social order grow out of these interfaces, or as anthropologist Alice Tsing refers to it, what frictions occur? My study focuses specifically on the frictional interfaces between NGO peacebuilding programs and survivors' expressions of forgiveness for perpetrators of atrocities in Gulu District. The study is based on original field research conducted during two periods in 2008. read less

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