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In contexts of violent armed conflict, civilian populations are often forced to contend with a myriad of challenges, including a lack of basic resources, widespread diseases, displacement, extreme poverty, and rampant physical and sexual abuse. These hardships have proven particularly striking in Northern Uganda or Acholiland,1 where the two-decade-long war has resulted in countless deaths, widespread human rights violations, the destruction of the social and economic fabric of society, and the displacement of more than half the population of Acholiland (Save the Children, 2001). The burden of war has been shouldered by the civilian population, and has been especially brutal for the over 30,000 children who have been conscripted into the main rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), as combatants and sex slaves, forced to commit unthinkable atrocities, including rape, maiming, slaughtering, and looting. They have perpetrated these acts against each other, against their families, and against their communities.
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Patel, S., Spittal, P., Muyinda, H., Oyat, G., Sewankambo, N.K. (2011). The Wayo Program in Northern Uganda: Building on Traditional Assets in Supporting Acholi Young Women and Girls in the Context of War and HIV. In: Denov, M., Maclure, R., Campbell, K. (eds) Children’s Rights and International Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119253_10
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