The Violence of Peace

Ethnojustice in Northern Uganda

Bibliographic Data

ID3883769
AuthorsAdam Branch (0000-0001-7907-2493, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume45
Issue3
Pages608-630
Publication date2014-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/dech.12094
OpenAlexW2112732941
LanguageEN
Citations received23
References cited18

Traditional justice, or what this article refers to as 'ethnojustice', claims to promote social reconstruction, peace and justice after episodes of war by rebuilding traditional order. Ethnojustice has become an increasingly prominent mode of transitional justice in northern Uganda. As such interventions multiply throughout Africa, it is essential to probe their political and practical consequences. This article situates ethnojustice theoretically within the broader discourse, practice and institutions of transitional justice, and historically within the reaction against orthodox liberal transitional justice from within the industry. Through an engagement with ethnojustice texts and interventions in the Acholi region of northern Uganda, the article argues that ethnojustice can end up extending forms of unaccountable, patriarchal power within Acholi society, funded and supported by the Ugandan state and international donors. In addition to underpinning this project of social discipline, ethnojustice also benefits the Ugandan state in its effort to avoid accountability for its violence during the war

Accountability · Economic Justice · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Psychological intervention · Social justice · Sociology · State (computer science) · Transitional justice · Cambodian History and Society · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration

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