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ConclusionWe realised that mostNGOs who come to develop Karamojado not reach to the village to find outThe disarmamentbrought us peace, butit has also brought us poverty.The youth accepted the disarmament andpeople said it was good to be able to go safelyin their work. But because we have not beendisarmed equally, we lost our cows and weresorted to hard and risky work in mines, quar-to our proper life. We have not left the cultureof livestock keeping behind; we are buying animalswhen we can, we are farming sorghum aswe have always done, and we are still followingthe ways of our elders.exactly what people want. We suggest thatthose agencies should carry out research withthe people before implementing programmes.Our team has got this knowledge in doing thisresearch. We know what we want to do now.If we go back to the places where we visited,we can identify those ones who have the greateststrengths. We can ask them to call theirries and murram pits. And even though the raidsIn our journey around the different settlementsbrothers and sisters to ask them to join in doingare much less now, thieves still threaten people.& kraals of Moroto and Napak we found our peo-what the strong ones are already doing. We canNow the majority of people are getting whatple working hard and being courageous and cre-strengthen our friendship with those peoplethey can from charcoal and firewood. Miningative. There has been so much rain this year, andand encourage them that there is somethingand charcoal are not sustainable ways of mak-the strength of soil and rain has combined withto be done. We Karimojong have our culture. It46ing a living, and we see them only as a way backour own strength to give us hope for the future.cannot be detached from us.