Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2101192
Roger Mac Ginty
{"title":"Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda","authors":"Roger Mac Ginty","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2101192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2101192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47529825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2122917
J. Hopwood, R. O’Byrne
{"title":"Conceptual Resilience in the Language and Lives of Resilient People: Cases from Northern Uganda","authors":"J. Hopwood, R. O’Byrne","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2122917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2122917","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue explores post-conflict recovery in northern Uganda from the perspective of survivors themselves. Normative notions of resilience are widely critiqued as reductive, depoliticising and simplistic. Although the papers here, based on ethnographic methodologies, are largely sympathetic to this understanding, they also suggest that consideration of resilience should not be abandoned. The papers offer insights into how communities’ experiences and strategies of resilience often diverge from the ambitions of international actors. They demonstrate that micro-level studies of real people’s experiences of post-conflict recovery allow space for wider comparative and theoretical insights to emerge.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45799925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2092685
L. Williams
{"title":"Building an Ecology of Resilience through Religious Practice and Community in Northern Uganda","authors":"L. Williams","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2092685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2092685","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork from 2015 to 2019, this paper explores resilience among evangelical Christians in rural northern Uganda after years of violent conflict. The paper argues that three aspects of evangelical life train and build resilience for congregation members: (1) individual and collective prayer; (2) social inclusion and resource sharing; (3) narrative practices of reframing the past and present. When these are continuously practiced within the evangelical group, these features form a kind of resilience which acts to manage the effects of violence. Thus, resilience is conceptualized as an adaptive process within an ecology of social and narrative practice.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42705557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2092688
Ponsiano Bimeny
{"title":"Problematic Ideological Humanitarianism: Generating More Resilient Markets but More Fragile Beneficiaries","authors":"Ponsiano Bimeny","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2092688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2092688","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper discusses circumstances under which post-conflict humanitarian-development interventions may post success despite exacerbating population’s vulnerability. It concerns Mercy Corps’ (MC) Revitalisation of Agricultural Incomes and New Markets (RAIN) project in Lamwo District, Northern Uganda. MC identified market access as key component of community resilience measuring it through technical feedback processes. In its own terms, RAIN has proved successful, and the market became robust. However, a less narrow evaluation revealed RAIN’s negative impact including diminished food security, increased child malnutrition, domestic and gender-based violence. On any rational understanding of resilience, interventions appeared to compromise rather than enhance population’s resilience.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47577637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2092687
Helle Harnisch
{"title":"”The Third Time Janus Died”: Resilience and Dependencies In Coping With Adversity During And After Civil War In Northern Uganda","authors":"Helle Harnisch","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2092687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2092687","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article critically explores how local notions of coping and resilience among former forcibly recruited children and youth in the war-affected Acholi region resonate with established conceptualisations of resilience in resilience research that primarily originate from a US context. Based on 12 months of fieldwork in urban and rural Acholi contexts, the analysis shows how poverty, corruption, and the presence of international humanitarian organisations in the urban context, create dependencies that diminish community resilience in the Acholi region. The findings call for optimising the balance between emic and etic perspectives in resilience studies as well as in humanitarian interventions.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48106181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2075248
Ilmari Käihkö
{"title":"Ambiguity and Methodological Transparency in the Study of Civil War: An Answer to Thémner’s ‘Lingering Command Structures’ in Liberia","authors":"Ilmari Käihkö","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2075248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2075248","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Researchers who study civil wars and other armed conflicts are bound to face ambiguities. This article continues the discussion about research brokers in conflict zones that started in a 2019 special issue of Civil Wars and scrutinises the finding that Liberian wartime command structures continue to linger in informal guises long to the post-conflict. Absent transparent acknowledging of the ambiguities it glosses over, past scholarship risks a far too neat story that imbues arguments with untested assumptions. The result neither captures the complexity of contemporary realities of Liberian former combatants nor helps Liberia to move forward from its difficult past.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44465969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2075247
Anders Themnér
{"title":"A Response to Ilmari Käihkö’s “On Brokers, Commodification of Information and Liberian Former Combatants”","authors":"Anders Themnér","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2075247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2075247","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In a recent article in Civil Wars, Ilmari Käihkö criticizes my research approach of collaborating with ex-commanders to study their own ex-command structures. While I welcome a discussion concerning the pros and cons of employing this approach, it must be based on a correct representation of the methods that I have used. Käihkö does not do this in his article, and he makes a number of false statements about my research. My ambition with this paper is to set the record straight and pave the way for a more productive discussion about how to best study ex-command structures.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48473433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-02-17DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2031440
E. Storer, Innocent Anguyo, Anthony Odda
{"title":"“One Man’s Meat Is Another Man’s Poison”: Marungi and Realities of Resilience in North West Uganda","authors":"E. Storer, Innocent Anguyo, Anthony Odda","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2031440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2031440","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Approaches to resilience in post-war contexts prioritise systems-based thinking above everyday realities. This paper explores reconstruction through marungi (khat) in North-West Uganda. Presenting ethnographic evidence, we chart connections between marungi and resilience among growers, traders and “eaters”. Firstly, we argue for a consideration of the actual resources through which individuals and households build capacity to withstand shocks following war. Secondly, we explore inequities within production lines and the effects of criminalising khat, to demonstrate trade-offs within prospects for post-war prosperity. Ultimately, we argue for process-based analyses of how resilience is negotiated in contingent circumstances.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42907814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-01-11DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2015216
Francis Abonga, Charlotte R. Brown
{"title":"Restoration and Renewal Through Sport: Gendered Experiences of Resilience for War-Affected Youth in Northern Uganda","authors":"Francis Abonga, Charlotte R. Brown","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2015216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2015216","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Building on the proposal for a ‘culturally sensitive’ framework of resilience, this article explores the construction of resilience at an individual and community level. Through the lens of sport, we explore the relational nature of resilience and its relationship to ideas of morality and community well-being. Using interviews and focus groups conducted across northern Uganda 2018–2020, we engage youth perspectives on resilience or restoration (roco). We emphasise the gendered dimensions that shape different stakeholder’s understandings of the concept and that, in this context, the pursuit of a community-affirmed vision of resilience or good surroundings (piny maber) reinforces pre-existing inequalities.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43834958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2015196
Isaac Waanzi Hillary, Bruno Braak
{"title":"‘When the World Turns Upside Down, Live Like a Bat!’ Idioms of Suffering, Coping, and Resilience Among Elderly Female Zande Refugees in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda (2019–20)","authors":"Isaac Waanzi Hillary, Bruno Braak","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2015196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2015196","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ‘Resilience’ is trending in development theory and practice, where it is often measured using countable socio-economic outcomes. This paper draws on ethnographic research with South Sudanese Zande refugees in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda, to show a different and often overlooked perspective; that of elderly refugee women. Having lived through decades of war and displacement, these women have developed a rich body of knowledge about suffering, coping, and resilience. Mixing idioms, folktales, and anecdotes, they teach youth not to focus on outcomes or ‘big dreams’, but on a stoic acceptance of loss and perpetual precarity. They advise actions like farming, childcare, and faith. Even so, suffering and coping are socially conditioned and policed, and the intimate circle harbours both protection and dangers, like witchcraft. The women’s accounts contrast bleakly with up-beat neoliberal developmentalism which sees cash-infused ‘resilience’ as the key to refugees’ self-reliant futures.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47259021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}