Lino Owor OgoraFoundation for Justice and Development Initiatives (FJDI) · Peace Building and Transitional Justice
Lino Owor Ogora
MSc. Education for Sustainability
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Introduction
I am a peace-building and development practitioner with experience in Uganda and South Sudan. I currently work as Civil Affairs Officer with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), a post I have held since March 2017. Prior to joining UNMISS, I worked with conflict-affected communities in northern Uganda from 2006 in conducting research and implementing community-based initiatives for peace building. I am also founder of a national NGO in Uganda called the Foundation for Justice.
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This report provides an official narrative about the atrocities which took place at Parabongo Primary School. Communications with affected communities throughout FJDI’s work – along with other non governmental organisations (NGOs) – have repeatedly exposed a sense of abandonment and injustice, halting transitional justice and development. This repo...
This report is the result of analysis of data collected during three focus group discussions conducted in the communities of Lukodi, Barlonyo and Pabo in Northern Uganda in May 2016. The aim of the focus groups was to gauge local views on the trial processes of former Lord’s Resistance Army commanders Dominic Ongwen, which commenced at the Internat...
I first set foot in Gulu town in northern Uganda on a chilly March evening in the year 2000. It felt strange to be coming, for the first time in my life, to a region that was my fatherland. Indeed, I had spent all the years of my life in central and southern Uganda, where my father had moved with his family because of the conflict.1 All I had heard...
This paper discusses the cultural identity of youths in post-conflict Northern Uganda. Situated in a wider discussion of literature related to the concepts of youth and cultural identity, the paper discusses the impact of the protracted armed conflict in the region on the cultural identity of the youths in the region. It reports the incidence of ac...
In Chapter 3, I explore the challenges that I have met in the course of conducting research in northern Uganda with JRP. A first part explores the security challenges and the ways in which to negotiate access to respondents. A second part reflects upon the tension between long-term benefits of action-oriented research in terms of advocacy, versus t...
Recent national and international debates on truth and reconciliation in Uganda have emphasized the importance of incorporating
local-level mechanisms into a national transitional justice strategy. The Juba Peace Talks represented an opportunity to develop
and articulate sufficient and just alternatives and complementary mechanisms to the internati...
For much of its lifespan, the conflict in northern Uganda between the Government of Uganda (GoU) and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was largely concentrated in Acholi and Lango sub‐regions. Teso sub‐region was largely peaceful, however many areas were affected by cattle‐rustling from the Karamojong. All of this changed when, in June 2003, the LRA...
On July 11, 1989, the 106th battalion of the National Resistance Army (NRA) allegedly rounded up 300 men from Mukura and other surrounding areas and incarcerated some of them in train wagon number C521083. These men were suspected of being rebel collaborators against the NRA regime, but there is little evidence to suggest that most of them were any...
Traditional justice practices are increasingly considered as a potential mechanism for conflict resolution and transitional justice. Northern Uganda is a case in point: traditional justice practices such as Mato Oput are about to be used for resolving war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during 22 years of conflict. Unfortunately tradit...
In Northern Uganda, traditional justice has come into the limelight as a part of the solution to the question on accountability and reconciliation. However traditional justice has drawn criticism from different academicians and scholars worldwide. Whereas traditional justice may not offer comprehensive answers to the questions on accountability and...
In the early morning hours of 24 July 2002, the villages around Mucwini awoke to the bloodied corpses of 56 men, women and children. The massacre was a deliberate and ruthless retaliation by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) after a local man they had abducted escaped from them with a gun. After they were finished with their ‘work,` the LRA wrote a...
On April 20th 1995, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) entered the trading centre of Atiak and after an intense offensive, defeated the Ugandan army stationed there. Hundreds of men, women, students and young children were then rounded up by the LRA and marched a short distance into the bush until they reached a river. There, they were separated into...
you are feeling sad). Appeasing a person who is sad is referred to as "kweyo cwiny", or the English equivalent of "cooling the heart". Respondents often used the latter expression to describe the process of healing and reconciliation derived from truth telling, acknowledgement and compensation, and so forms the title of the report. Cover Photo: A s...
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Under the auspices of the Foundation for Justice and Development Initiatives (FJDI), this project aims at setting up a community memory project in Lukodi Village, northern Uganda. A classroom block donated by Lukodi Primary School will be converted into a community memory centre that will be used for archiving information about the Lukodi massacre of 2004, and the conflict in northern Uganda. FJDI will collect information for the centre through community workshops with the local community, and a year long documentation to be undertaken in 2018.
