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  • Silencing the past in Ugandan schools. The role of education in reconciliation processes

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    Datzberger, Simone
    Donovan, Outi
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    Donovan, Outi E.
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    This article assesses how reconciliation in post-conflict Uganda is currently approached in the country’s education sector. It highlights that education is in the main equated with economic development thereby side-lining the legacies of past conflicts and social injustices. In the view of Uganda’s highly politicised reconciliation process, this may not come as a surprise. Interviewees pointed to a general fear, that addressing past conflicts in official curricula could revive tensions. However, fieldwork further revealed that a sheer absence of reconciliation through the education sector could be dangerous in two ways. ...
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    This article assesses how reconciliation in post-conflict Uganda is currently approached in the country’s education sector. It highlights that education is in the main equated with economic development thereby side-lining the legacies of past conflicts and social injustices. In the view of Uganda’s highly politicised reconciliation process, this may not come as a surprise. Interviewees pointed to a general fear, that addressing past conflicts in official curricula could revive tensions. However, fieldwork further revealed that a sheer absence of reconciliation through the education sector could be dangerous in two ways. First, silencing past conflicts in schools may have a depoliticising effect on a population as a whole. It deprives a society of constructing a social, cultural and national identity that is based on multiple understandings of a conflict. Second, the absence of a social truth based on different narratives of the conflict can in the long-term trigger new forms of structural violence if not conflict or violent unrest.
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    Journal Title
    Peacebuilding
    Volume
    8
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2018.1517963
    Copyright Statement
    This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Peacebuilding, 8 (1), pp. 118-134, 18 Oct 2018, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2018.1517963
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    Political science
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/396554
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