UGANDA

COMPENDIUM OF CONFLICTS IN UGANDA
LIMITATIONS
Budget and time constraints resulted in the purposive sampling of 20 out of Uganda’s
111 districts. As such the Compendium cannot claim to detail all the conflicts that have
ever occurred throughout all of Uganda’s numerous districts. Furthermore, although
focus group discussions were generally open and frank, not all participants will have
felt comfortable bringing up all conflicts, their causes and impacts, and stakeholders
that they knew of. In some cases, participants discussed certain atrocities but declined
to name perpetrators. For discussion on some issues, such as incidents involving
sexual and gender based violence (SGBV), the open forum of the discussion group was
not conducive. Even for information that was already public locally, the fact that the
research teams in Kyankwanzi and Bundibugyo districts faced direct intimidation, shows
that there are actors who would rather see such information about Uganda’s history of
conflict remain hidden from the national limelight, and that the space available for open
discussion of issues of conflict, peace and justice is not as expansive as it needs to be.
It is also important to note again that conflict descriptions in this Compendium are based
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