Women and children comprise 80 per cent of the displaced population. the missing data for Northern Uganda implies biased information. For more than twenty years, civil war in northern Uganda has claimed women and children as its primary victims. To spend time in northern Uganda and learn firsthand about the situation is to become horrified by the atrocities and appalled by the lack of effective response. The LRA terrorized northern Uganda for two decades when, in 2006, they indicated an interest in peace negotiations.

A female refugee with her children in the Bidi Bidi camp in northern Uganda. Civil War, Reintegration, and Gender in Northern Uganda Jeannie Annan, Christopher Blattman, Dyan Mazurana, and Khristopher Carlson Journal of Conflict Resolution 2011 55 : 6 , 877-908 The International Criminal Court‘s intervention into the ongoing civil war in northern Uganda evoked a chorus of confident predictions as to its capacity to bring peace and justice to the war-torn region. This optimism is unwarranted, however.

We exploit the largely exogenous character of abduction and displacement in northern Uganda during the recent civil war to estimate the effects of each on experimental measures of risk tolerance, altruism, trust and trustworthiness, as well as a survey measure of patience. The International Criminal Court‘s intervention into the ongoing civil war in northern Uganda evoked a chorus of confident predictions as to its capacity to bring peace and justice to the war‐torn region. This optimism is unwarranted, however. Although much of Uganda has emerged from civil war and economic chaos since the 1980s, the north of the country remains caught in a humanitarian crisis. It is estimated that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted as many as 66,000 youths, wrenched them from their families and forced them to become soldiers, porters and sex slaves. These were hosted by Juba, Sudan (now South Sudan), and dubbed the Juba Peace Talks. As many as 1.6 million people displaced by violence live in camps in the Acholi and Lango sub-regions. Civil War, Reintegration, and Gender in northern Uganda Jeannie Annan, Christopher Blattman, Dyan Mazurana, and Khristopher Carlson1 May 2010 Abstract: What are the impacts of war on the participants, and do they vary by gender? Education in Uganda and SSA Although the children of Northern Uganda were hindered by civil war and violence to obtain an education until 2007, the overall state of education for Ugandan children has overall been improving. Meanwhile the LRA set up camp in Garamba National Park in northeastern Congo, gathering its strength and stockpiling food.