The Displacement and Return series features blog posts from the Politics of Return and Trajectories of Displacement projects, based at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at LSE and funded by the ESRC/AHRC.
Follow all updates on the project on Twitter and Instagram through the hashtag #LSEreturn.
Koen Vlassenroot, Emery Mudinga and Josaphat Musamba Bussy tackle the complexities around the remobilisation of armed combatants following conflict and introduce new ways to look at it.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
In this article, we introduce the notion of circular return to explain the permanent state of mobility between civilian and combatant life […]
In October 2017, Kara Blackmore explored the vital role art can play in developing and disseminating research to a variety of audiences and unveiled how researchers on the Politics of Return project and artists selected through the 32º East residency would dialogue to create outputs on the issues presented. In this blogpost, Kara Blackmore and Nikissi Serumaga describe the process of […]
Tatiana Carayannis and Aaron Pangburn argue that it is time to rethink Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
After numerous cycles of violence, ceasefires, and peace deals, thousands of Congolese former rebels have demobilised, disarmed, and tried to return to their communities of […]
Donnas Ojok shares a compelling personal tale of how the impact of the LRA war in Northern Uganda still make it difficult for women and girls to thrive.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
Meet my niece, Juliet. She has one of the most infectious smiles I have ever seen. Beautiful both physically […]
Four years after systematic ethnic cleansing led Central African Republic’s Muslim community to flee to neighbouring countries, Enrica Picco explores the challenges facing returnees.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
At the beginning of the current crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), from late 2013 to early 2014, systematic ethnic cleansing was perpetrated […]
Almost seven years after South Sudan became independent, we look back at the high expectations citizens had for their new nation through the eyes of a documentary, Our Bright Stars, directed by Frederique Cifuentes and Sidi Moctar Khaba.
South Sudan became the world’s newest country as it broke away from the north and declared itself the Republic of South Sudan […]
A photo essay by Kara Blackmore on the “Understanding South Sudan: Questions of Knowledge and Representation” held at LSE on 30 November 2017.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
“Let this dialogue be merely a punctuation mark in the ongoing conversation around today’s South Sudan and the broader crisis of representation in the cosmopolitan […]
Through the story of Chol, LSE’s Naomi Pendle explores the meaning of exile and the lived experience of being a refugee through cycles of displacement and return. In the first article of this two-part series, Pendle tells us how Chol rebuilt home after years spent in exile. Now, LSE’s Naomi Pendle narrates Chol’s return into exile, a journey that […]
Through the story of Chol, LSE’s Naomi Pendle explores the meaning of exile and the lived experience of being a refugee through cycles of displacement and return. In the first article of this two-part series, Pendle tells us how Chol rebuilt home after years spent in exile.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
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Two studies in the current issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies re-visit the fascinating debate about justice and reconciliation in northern Uganda, nearly ten years since the fighting between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GoU) stopped on Ugandan soil, as Anna Macdonald, Holly Porter and Letha Victor discuss in this article.
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