Approximación de Casos de Seguridad en cuestiones de salud ocupacional en Uganda
Analysis of the Safety Case Regulatory Approach in Safeguarding Health and Safety Standards in Oil and Gas Sector in Uganda Author: Peter Reat Gatkuoth Introduction According to Lassourd, T. in his working-paper, “Fiscal Rule Options for Petroleum Revenue Management in Uganda’’ Strategies have been set in order to prepare the country for commercial production of […]
ORGANIZACIONES NO GUBERNAMENTALES (ONG) LA ESPADA DE DOS FILOS DE LA PAZ Y EL DESARROLLO: EL CASO DE LA REGIÓN DE KARAMOJA
Non-Governmental Organizations, The Two-Edged Sword for Peace and Development: The Case of Karamoja Region Author: Wyclife Ong’eta, and Salome Nyambura Translated into Spanish by Sylvia Cespedes Introduction Over the past 100 years relatively more NGOs have tended to operate in fields that are also of great concern to national governments, for example, economics, finance, commerce, peace, […]
Freedom of Movement in Northern Uganda: Case study of Kitgum District
Key words: UNHCR, Uganda, Lords Resistance Army, humanitarian organizations, IDP camps,
Now We Pain and Groan
Uganda, alternately beautiful and gruesome, continues to be at war. Is there hope for the future? A personal reflection.
If I had got married, I’d be dead today.
Better late – then never. A couple days after our official start at UPEACE (University for Peace), we noticed another colorful shirt and a new face of a tall strong man. As for many other African students the trip to UPEACE, was anything but easy. Sam’s journey included five stopovers, two countries in Africa, two in Europe and one in Venezuela before finally arriving in Costa Rica. Yes, many of us take the one-day trip and many other things for granted.
Nevertheless, Sam luckily made it.
Powerful Rural Women in Turkana, Kenya
On a hot weekday morning about 100 people were meeting in a church in Kainuk, Kenya, a remote rural town on the border between the areas of Turkana and Pokot. Suddenly all the children sitting on the porch of the church took off like a startled flock of birds, running at breakneck speed away from the church. When their parents sitting inside the church saw their children in flight, they dashed after them. The meeting dissolved into chaos…
The Consequences of Failure
Kenya’s choices are simple: life or death, penury or prosperity, a cohesive, well governed nation that counts its diversity as strength or a suspicious, hateful one governed by the cynical and awash in the blood of its young. The leaders too must now decide whether they will be remembered as the men who destroyed a nation or those who rescued it and set it on a glorious path that will be remembered for generations.
Kenya in Crisis
An in-depth look at the background of the Kenyan crisis, disputes over the election, and the potential for re-establishing peace in the near future.
The World’s Worst Forgotten Crisis? Uganda To-day.
The World’s Worst Forgotten Crisis? Uganda To-day. Author: Stella Laloyo Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/18/2004 Category: Special Report The World’s Worst Forgotten Crisis? Uganda To-day. PDF here Introduction Today Uganda is a republic and has been defined by many member states of the African Union, the media and international […]
Article 2(4) of the UN Charter: Alive and Well
Some have argued that the continued use of force in international relations demonstrates that the prohibition of the use of force in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter is meaningless and outdated. Kanade counters this position with a discourse on the purpose and interpretation of international law, and argues that the UN Charter continues to offer a meaninful and effctive legal framework for confronting threats to global peace and security.