1st Edition
Gender, Conflict and Reintegration in Uganda Abducted Girls, Returning Women
By Allen Kiconco
Copyright 2021
208 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores what happened when the tens of thousands of girls (now women) abducted by Lord’s Resistance Army and inducted into their campaign of violence against the Ugandan government, returned home.
Drawing on extensive original research, the author considers the challenges which the formerly abducted women have encountered upon their return, the strategies which have been used to aid... Read more
- Introduction
- Culture, Spirituality and Cleansing Rituals
- Abduction and Forced Marriage in the Context of Conflict
- Stigmatisation not Reintegration
- Post-Captivity Marriage
- The Return Home Process
- Conclusion
Biography
Dr Allen Kiconco received her PhD in African Studies from the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, the University of Birmingham in 2015. Since October 2017, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
