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Developing a Land Conflict Monitoring and Mapping Tool for the Acholi Sub-Region of Northern Uganda

Developing a Land Conflict Monitoring and Mapping Tool for the Acholi Sub-Region of Northern Uganda

Well before the effective ending of the protracted Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)

insurgency in northern Uganda in July 2006, and at a time when the entire rural

population was displaced into camps, concerns had emerged around land, in particular

in the Acholi sub-region, where the war had been most intense and longest lasting

(Adoko & Levine 2004). Through forced displacement, almost all rural Acholi

families has been prevented from occupying their land for many years, years in which

numbers had grown substantially but in which social structures had been undermined,

and elders able to transmit knowledge and understanding about customary land across

generations had died.


The predatory attitude of government, military and Acholi elites towards Acholi land

had also become apparent through a number of dubious land acquisitions which had

taken place in spite of the on-going war. Also, the government had signalled its

enthusiasm for large scale commercial sugar cane farming in the region, triggering a

confrontation with Acholi political leaders (Okello-Okello 2007).

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