Addressing the Transitional Justice Gap in Uganda Through Documentation

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This episode explores the role of grassroots documentation in Uganda's transitional justice process amidst ongoing political challenges.

Justice Visions' new research project - GROUNDOC - focuses on the role of documentation in transitional justice processes. In this mini-series of the podcast, we explore documentation practices across a range of cases that are part of the GROUNDOC project. This episode focuses on Uganda where the transitional justice process can be traced back to the peace negotiations between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army, which provided for the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms including reparations, criminal accountability, truth seeking, and local justice processes. Yet, these measures are implemented amidst ongoing political repression and violence, the absence of a political transition, and democratic regression. In this complex context, we ask what the role of – grassroots – documentation is and can be. Co-hosts Amanda Rossini Martins and Büşra Cebeci , speak with Sarah Kasande , who works on the case of Uganda. By shifting the conversation from state-led mechanisms to grassroots documentation practices, this episode explores grassroots actors’ intentions, challenges, and complementarities. Sarah highlights the responses of civil society actors and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Amanda Rossini Martins, Büşra Cebeci

Guest: Sarah Kasande

Topics covered

• transitional justice
• documentation
• grassroots movements
• civil society
• political repression

Keywords

• transitional justice
• Uganda
• documentation
• civil society
• grassroots

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lord's Resistance Army, Human Rights Centre - UGent

Places: Uganda

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