What Happened to Children Who Returned from the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda?
What Happened to Children Who Returned from the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda?
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DOI：
10.1093/jrs/fez116
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发表时间：
2020-12-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Parker, Melissa
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作者：
Allen, Tim;Atingo, Jackline;Parker, Melissa
20 世纪 80 年代末至 2004 年间，在乌干达北部，圣主抵抗军 (LRA) 招募了超过 50,000 人，其中大部分是通过武力招募的。被带走的人中约有一半是儿童（18 岁以下）。许多人再也没有见过家人，但有超过 20,000 人通过援助资助的接待中心返回。我们努力让他们与亲人团聚，他们的亲人大多生活在不安全的流离失所者营地中。即使在 2006 年战斗结束后，随后被探访的人数也相对较少。数千名弱势儿童基本上只能靠自己的力量。本文借鉴了 2004 年 6 月以及 2012 年至 2018 年进行的研究，并将研究结果与有关该地区重返社会的其他出版物进行了比较。它认为，实施将流离失所儿童与其直系亲属重新安置的最佳实践指南会产生负面后果。大多数经过接待中心的儿童现在都在祖传的土地上定居下来，因为他们过去曾参与上帝军的经历，因此经常受到虐待。除极少数例外，只有那些长期与上帝抵抗军在一起并且不生活在祖传土地上的人才能设法避免此类经历。
In northern Uganda, more than 50,000 people were recruited by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) between the late 1980s and 2004, mostly by force. Around half of those taken were children (under 18 years old). A large number were never seen by their families again, but more than 20,000 returned through aid-financed reception centres. Endeavours were made to reunite them with their relatives, who were mostly living in insecure displacement camps. Relatively few were subsequently visited, even after the fighting ended in 2006. Thousands of vulnerable children were largely left to their own devices. This article draws on research carried out in 2004-06 and from 2012 to 2018, and compares findings with other publications on reintegration in the region. It argues that implementing best-practice guidelines for relocating displaced children with their immediate relatives had negative consequences. The majority of children who passed through a reception centre are now settled as young adults on ancestral land, where they are commonly abused because of their LRA past. With few exceptions, it is only those who spent a long period with the LRA and who are not living on ancestral land who have managed to avoid such experiences.