| ID | 103128 |
| Title Proper | Humanitarianism, violence, and the camp in northern Uganda |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Branch, Adam |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article shows how international humanitarianism and state violence developed a sustained relation of mutual support during the civil war in northern Uganda. This collaboration was anchored in the archipelago of forced displacement camps, which at the peak of the war contained about a million people, and which were only able to exist because of, first, the violence of the Ugandan state in forcing people into them, preventing people from leaving, and repressing political organisation in the camps; and, second, the intervention of international humanitarian aid agencies, which fed, managed, and sustained the camps for over a decade. The consequence was that state violence and international humanitarianism each depended on the other for its own viability. |
| `In' analytical Note | Civil Wars Vol. 11, No. 4; Dec 2009: p.477 - 501 |
| Journal Source | Civil Wars Vol. 11, No. 4; Dec 2009: p.477 - 501 |
| Key Words | Humanitarianism ; Violence ; Northern Uganda ; Civil War ; International Humanitarianism |