Gender, Conflict and Reintegration in Uganda

This book explores what happened when thousands of girls abducted by Lord's Resistance Army and inducted into their campaign of violence against the Ugandan government, returned home. Of interest to scholars, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of post-conflict reconstruction, African politics and gender and conflict.

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.

1. Introduction 2. Culture, Spirituality and Cleansing Rituals 3. Abduction and Forced Marriage in the Context of Conflict 4. Stigmatisation not Reintegration 5. Post-Captivity Marriage 6. The Return Home Process 7. Conclusion