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Title:Beyond Juba: does Uganda need a national truth and reconciliation process?
Author:Mutua, MakauISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights
Volume:13
Issue:1
Pages:142-155
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subjects:truth and reconciliation commissions
democratization
Abstract:The author focuses on the struggle to reform the Ugandan State through a new compact born of a national truth and reconciliation process. He argues that the crisis of the Ugandan State mainly lies in the inability to create a viable, legitimate and democratic society and examines possible causes for this. He concludes that Uganda should address its past and present crises with the institution of a truth and reconciliation process that is guided by a truth commission, but with a wide mandate to reconstruct the State. This must include addressing the variables of reconstituting political order, rewriting the constitution, and developing a national framework in which civil society and political parties can become the central engines of democratization. President Museveni, who, once hailed as a saviour, now threatens to join the list of his disgraced and departed predecessors, must allow a national process of reconstruction to commence at once, and the Juba talks provide an opening through which this process could be launched. Ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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