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Conflict resolution as cultural brokerage: how refugee leaders mediate disputes in Uganda’s refugee settlements
Abstract
Looking through the lens of disputes and their resolution, this article examines the efforts undertaken by refugees to guarantee peaceful coexistence within and around settlements in northern Uganda. Based on extensive fieldwork, we examine which disputes occur within and around the settlements and which actors intervene to mediate and solve them. We identify a hierarchy among the different formal and informal actors involved in the resolution of disputes and show how refugee leaders operate as brokers between Ugandan law and South-Sudanese customs, between here and there, a recent past and imagined future in the home country. This finding comes to clarify the process of local integration, by foregrounding the link between law and culture. Some of the dispute-settlement outcomes facilitate the refugees’ integration into Uganda as a host country, while other resolution strategies are geared towards a long-awaited return to South-Sudan.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vancluysen, S., & Ingelaere, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Antwerp (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Vancluysen, Sarah
- Venue
- Journal of Refugee Studies
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2020-05-01
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 300-315
- ISSN
- 0951-6328 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6925
- OpenAlex
- W3021327010
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 2.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model (vor)
- Locations
- Journal of Refugee Studies (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Research Foundation—Flanders
- Institute of Development Policy
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Education › Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Peacebuilding and International Security
- Keywords
- conflict resolution, cultural brokerage, mediation (conflict resolution), refugee settlement, Uganda, local integration, law and culture, customary law, return migration, peacebuilding
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