Books, Articles, and Chapters


Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda (Oxford University Press, 2011).


No Peace without Justice? Assessing the ICC in Africa. In Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory, edited by Andrea Bartoli, Zachariah Mampilly, and Susan Allen Nan (Praeger, 2011 forthcoming).


Neither Liberal nor Peaceful? Practices of "Global Justice" by the ICC. In A Liberal Peace? The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding, edited by Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam (Zed Books, 2011 forthcoming).


The Irresponsibility of the Responsibility to Protect in Africa. In Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect: Interrogating Theory and Practice, edited by Philip Cunliffe (Routledge, 2011).


The Roots of LRA Violence: Political Crisis and Politicized Ethnicity in Acholiland.  In The Lord’s Resistance Army: Myth and Reality, edited by Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot (Zed Books, 2010).

 

Humanitarianism, Violence, and the Camp in Northern Uganda.  2009. Civil Wars 11:4.

 

Against Humanitarian Impunity: Rethinking Responsibility for Displacement and Disaster in Northern Uganda.  2008. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 2:2.


Uganda’s Civil War and the Politics of ICC Intervention.  2007. Ethics and International Affairs 21:2.

 

The Political Dilemmas of Global Justice: Anti-Civilian Violence and the Violence of Humanitarianism, the Case of Northern Uganda. Ph.D. Dissertation in Political Science, Columbia University, 2007. Advisors: Jean L. Cohen & Mahmood Mamdani.

 

American Morality over International Law: Origins in UN Military Interventions, 1991-1995.  2005. Constellations 12:1.


Neither Peace nor Justice: Political Violence and the Peasantry in Northern Uganda, 1986-1998.  2005. African Studies Quarterly 8:2.

 

Winning the War but Losing the Peace?  The Dilemma of SPLM/A Civil Administration and the Tasks Ahead.  2005. Journal of Modern African Studies 43:1. Co-written with Zachariah Mampilly.




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Other Publications


Kony 2012 from Kampala, Critical Thoughts on Invisible Children's Kony 2012 Campaign, March 2012.

Human Rights Today in Northern Uganda: Land, Sickness, Violence, Public lecture, Gulu, Uganda, February 2012. 

Transitional Justice and Forced Displacement, Pambazuka News, July 27, 2011.
 
No Peace without Justice? Keynote address delivered at “The Politics of Peace and Justice” Panel Discussion, International Criminal Court Review Conference, Kampala, June 3, 2010.

AFRICOM and the ICC: Enforcing International Justice in Africa? Pambazuka News, May 27, 2010, Issue 483 (co-authored with Samar al-Bulushi).

 

What the ICC Review Conference Can't Fix, SSRC African Arguments Online, March 2010.

 

Review of Human Rights NGOs in East Africa (Makau Mutua, ed). 2010. Human Rights Quarterly 32:1.

Ethnojustice: The Theory and Practice of Traditional Justice in Uganda.  2009. Presented at 2008 American Political Science Association annual meeting.

Darfur and Northern Uganda: Two Models of Intervention, SSRC Making Sense of Darfur, April 2009.

 

Forget the ICC: Reflections on the Bashir Arrest Warrant, Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa Blog, March 2009.


Remarks on the Legacy of Forced Displacement in Uganda, Presentation to Friends of Peace in Africa annual meeting, San Diego, June 2008.

 

Gulu Town in War…And Peace? Displacement, Humanitarianism, and Post-War Crisis.   2007.  Working Paper 36, Cities and Fragile States, Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics.

 

Fostering the Transition in Northern Uganda: From War to Peace, Camps to Home.  2007.  Report for the Ford Foundation for Eastern Africa, published by Human Rights Focus (Uganda).


International Justice, Local Injustice: The International Criminal Court in Northern Uganda.  2004.  Dissent Magazine 51:3.