Conflict transformation and social change in Uganda
Subtitle: remembering after violence
By: Susanne Buckley-Zistel.
Series: Rethinking peace and conflict studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Social conflict -- Uganda; Social conflict -- Uganda -- Teso Region; Conflict management -- Uganda; Social change -- Uganda
Description: "Remembering after Violence argues that the absence of social change can be understood through analysing processes of identity formation and remembering. Inverting the argument of post-positivist approaches to conflict studies, which situate the emergence of violent conflict in discourse, the book develops a hermeneutics framework for analysing the discursive production of peace. It investigates the impact of memory, identity, closure and power on conflict transformation in Teso and examines what narratives are selected to explain the beginning of the insurgency, how the only war memorial is interpreted by local residents and if the newly invented cultural leader has the potential to improve the situation of the marginalised region. The book concludes with a call for a comprehensive effort of dealing with the past in war-torn societies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Violent conflicts and their termination; title: Inventing war and peace; title: Effective history and the beginning of the Teso insurgency; title: Mediation and the creation of peace in Teso; title: Narrating the cause of the Teso insurgency; title: Facing past and future after the Teso insurgency; title: Conflict termination and the absence of transformation in Teso; title: Dealing with the past of violent conflicts.