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SUMMARY:'War\, displacement\, and heritage: a post-conflict material cultu
 re in northern Uganda' - Dr John Giblin\, British Museum
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:This paper will explore the post-conflict heritage of displace
 ment in northern Uganda and will discuss the relevance of this research fo
 r post-conflict development. The perspectives to be presented are drawn fr
 om a contemporary-archaeological and materials-focused ethnographic study 
 of a former Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp\, Pabbo\, in Northern 
 Uganda. The ‘Northern War’ in Uganda\, which was largely fought betwee
 n the Uganda People’s Defence Force and the Lord’s Resistance Army fro
 m c. 1986 to 2006\, led to the displacement of 1.9 million rural residents
 \, 90% of the northern population\, into nearby IDP camps. Since the end o
 f the war\, international organisations\, including UNHCR\, and national g
 overnment departments have sought to normalise the post-conflict landscape
  by evacuating the camps\, returning people to their pre-conflict ancestra
 l homes\, and physically destroying the camps. However\, many of the camps
 \, including Pabbo\, have since been re-appropriated\, re-cycled\, and ren
 ewed as trading centres and committees have been created to manage and pro
 mote the heritage of the IDP camps through museums and memorials. These ci
 rcumstances present an anomalous situation in which an authorised map of r
 esident relationships with the camp\, which was created during the conflic
 t and influenced post-conflict resettlement policy\, contrasts with the po
 st-conflict counter map of resident memories and actions. In addition\, th
 rough stages of war\, displacement\, and resettlement a new post-conflict 
 material culture can be identified\, including settlement patterns\, archi
 tecture\, and objects\, as other ‘heritages of displacement’. Thus\, t
 his paper reflects on these observations and the potential role of heritag
 e in post-conflict development in ‘rural’ northern Uganda.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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