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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.
IDS_Master LogoThis book was put together by the research team members with help from Sarah Wilson andAlastair Scott-Villiers of the Pastoralist Communication Initiative and Patta Scott-Villiers ofthe Institute of Development Studies. The research was commissioned and supported by RestlessDevelopment Uganda and it was funded by UNFPA and the UK DFID.© Restless Development Uganda and the Institute of Development Studies, 2012Any parts of this book may be copied and reproduced without permission, provided that the partsreproduced are distributed free or at cost, not for profit. For any reproduction with commercialends, permission must first be obtained from the publisher. The publisher would appreciate beingsent a copy of any material in which text has been used.If you would like a copy of this book, please contactRestless Development Uganda, Plot 6 Acacia Road,P O Box 1208, Jinja, Uganda. Tel: (+256) 033 227 6185.You can also download it from:www.restlessdevelopment.org &www.pastoralists.org
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Page 5 and 6: 1In that way even this research has
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Page 9 and 10: in my parish and he promised to spo
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Page 14 and 15: 14THE FINDINGS
Page 16 and 17: 16“When we had cattle, we had a l
Page 19 and 20: The murram sites are communal, but
Page 21 and 22: The men in the picture below used t
Page 23 and 24: This old man is showing the youth w
Page 25 and 26: We also talked to Arukol Margaret a
Page 27 and 28: Here are three stories from Murulin
Page 29 and 30: Aleper Martha told us about how she
Page 31 and 32: We then travelled to Lokopo - anoth
Page 33 and 34: This man had these marks made on hi
Page 35 and 36: We found most people in Lokitelaa K
Page 37 and 38: The women are building this village
Page 39 and 40: The lame man was a challenge to the
Page 41 and 42: The people mining at Lotongirdig su
Page 43 and 44: When a person only has a stick he c
Page 45: When we analysed all the storiesand

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