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Fostering the Transition in Acholiland:From War to Peace, from Camps to Home

Human Rights FocusGulu, Uganda

September, 2007

From war and displacement……to peace and home.

CKNOWLEDGMENTS

Human Rights Focus, the lead researcher, and the project team would like to extendour gratitude to the Ford Foundation for Eastern Africa, whose support made thisreport and the extensive research it was based upon possible. We would also like torecognize the invaluable words of encouragement provided by Dr. Willy Mutunga,program officer for human rights and social justice at that organization.We would like to thank the district leadership of the four districts of Acholiland, all of whom greatly facilitated our researchers. In Gulu District, we would especially liketo extend our appreciation to LC V Chairman Norbert Mao and to RDC WalterOchora, who both took significant time to discuss these issues with us and ourresearchers. We would also like to thank local government in the areas where weconducted research, in particular LC III chairpersons, and camp leaders.Finally, we would like to thank the sixteen communities that generously hosted ourresearchers and willingly gave their time and ideas to this project. We look forwardto discussing this report with them soon.

Lead Researcher:

Dr. Adam Branch (email: arb122@columbia.edu)

Human Rights Focus Project Team:

Lilian Aneno, Human Rights Monitor; MartinKomakec, Information and Documentation Officer; Francis Odongyoo, Research andAdvocacy Officer; Adrian Yen, Research Coordinator.

Researchers:

Fred Anywar, Grace Lalweny, Grace Lamwaka Obita, LawrenceOkello, Okot Yasinto Okidi, Emmanuel Okot, Francis Oola, Denis Barnabas Otim.

Photo Credits:

Human Rights Focus