Displacing human rights : war and intervention in northern Uganda /

This title lays bare the reductive understandings motivating Western intervention in Africa, the inadequate tools it insists on employing, its refusal to be accountable to African citizenries, and, most important, its counterproductive consequences for peace, human rights, and justice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Branch, Adam, 1975-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Human rights > Uganda. Civil rights > Uganda. Humanitarian intervention > Uganda. War and society > Uganda. Uganda > Politics and government. Uganda > Social conditions. Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Ouganda. Droit d'ingérence humanitaire > Ouganda. Guerre et société > Ouganda. Ouganda > Politique et gouvernement. Ouganda > Conditions sociales. Droits de l'homme > Ouganda > Législation. Civil rights Human rights Humanitarian intervention Politics and government Social conditions War and society Uganda Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Human rights intervention in Africa
The politics of violence in Acholiland
Relief aid, violence, and the camp
Peacebuilding and social order
Ethnojustice: the turn to culture
The ICC and human rights enforcement
AFRICOM: militarizing peace
Beyond intervention.