Africa: In the Troubled Karamoja Cluster, Lokiriama’s Peace Accord Endures
The 1973 treaty empowers communities as the owners of the process and traditional elders as the guarantors of peace. In 1973, elders of the Matheniko community in Uganda and Kenya’s Turkana County met under a tree in the dusty border town of Lokiriama to discuss peace. Two weeks later, the Lokiriama Peace Accord was concluded,…