Africa Great Lakes

UGANDA: Reconciliation rituals

Uganda is recovering from the violence of civil war. How does a victim community reconcile with those members who have done the killing?

Twenty years of war between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the government forces in Northern Uganda drove all the people off the land and into IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps. Now fragile peace talks are in process, resettlement on the land has begun and LRA soldiers are returning to their communities with amnesty. The LRA abducted many of the soldiers from these communities as children but they have committed horrible massacres. Is reintegration possible? How can justice prevail?

AFRICA GREAT LAKES: Report of CPT delegation to DRC and Uganda now available


The report from the November-December 2007 Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda may now be viewed at http://www.cpt.org/files/Uganda%20and%20DRC%20Exploration%20Report%20-%20Nov%202007.pdf

Photos from the delegation are available at http://www.cpt.org/gallery/Winter-2007-Exploratory-Delegation-to-Uganda.

Participants in the delegation were Bob Holmes, Sandra Rincón, Andrea Siemens, and Jane MacKay Wright.