Re-envisioning Security and Rule of Law Responses in the Great Lakes Region in East Africa: Local Partnerships as Pathways to Improved Programming

The Centre for African Research based in Gulu, Northern Uganda, in partnership with the Catholic University of Bukavu, conducted a virtual workshop for leaders from selected communities in Northern Uganda (Gulu and Adjumani); South Sudan (Juba); and in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Bukavu). The workshop brought together 17 community leaders to engender a rebalancing of local agency into the asymmetric power and relationships in security, the rule of law, and partnerships in these communities in the context of pandemics.

Following up on concerns from conflict and post conflict contexts, as was raised in the symposium, the undersigned moved to propose the following recommendations to development partners, donors, local, regional and national governments, Non-Governmental Organisations, traditional and local authority as well as religious leaders and security actors in volatile situations.

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