Social Torture : : The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006 / / Chris Dolan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dolan, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Human Rights in Context ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)

As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, government decisions and actions on the ground, consolidated by humanitarian interventions and silences, played a central role in creating a massive yet only very belatedly recognized humanitarian crisis. Not only individuals, but society as a whole, came to exhibit symptoms typical of torture, and the perpetrator-victim dichotomy became blurred. It is such phenomena, and the complex of social, political, economic and cultural dynamics which underpin them, which the author describes as social torture. Building on political economy, social anthropology, discourse analysis, international relations and psychoanalytic approaches to violence, this book offers an important analytical instrument for all those seeking entry points through which to address entrenched conflicts, whether from a conflict resolution, post-conflict recovery or transitional justice perspective.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of ‘Protected Villages’ in which Fieldwork Was Conducted -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Research Process -- 3. An Overview of the Situation in Northern Uganda -- 4. Reconsidering the LRA–Government Dynamic -- 5. Protection As Violation -- 6. Protection As Debilitation -- 7. Protection As Humiliation -- 8. Social Torture and the Continuation of War -- 9. Conclusions -- Annex A. Testimony of a LRA Soldier who Returned under Amnesty, October 2001. Recorded April 2002, Kampala -- Annex B. An Account of the 1994 Peace Talks -- Bibliography -- INDEX