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About The Project
Project Map
Project Staff

Dr Chris Dolan

Project Advisor
With a background in issues of forced migration and conflict, he is currently the Director of the Refugee Law Project (RLp) and doubles as an advisor to the Beyond Juba Project.


Prof Joe Oloka Onyango

Project Advisor
J.Oloka-Onyango is the Director of the Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC) and former Dean of Law at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda (1998-2002). He has been a Visiting Professor at several universities around the world, including New York University (NYU), Harvard, Oxford, the United Nations University (UNU), Keio, Cape Town and pretoria, and is involved with a number of local, regional and international human rights organizations as well as with professional and academic journals in various capacities. Oloka-Onyango served as a member and Special Rapporteur on Globalization & Human Rights of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the promotion and protection of Human Rights from 1998 to 2002.


Dr Sylvia Tamale

Project Advisor
Associate Professor Faculty of Law, Makerere University and Advocate of the Courts of Judicature in Uganda.  Currently teaching "Gender & the Law" and "Social Research Methods".  Other subjects taught in the past include Law of Contracts, Bankruptcy, Insurance and Banking.   Dr. Tamale's research interests include Third World women and the law; Feminist legal theory and method; Gender and Sexuality; Law and the ideology of race and class; and social movements.   She has been a visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town and a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin.


Moses Chrispus Okello

Project Coordinator
Moses first joined the RLP as a volunteer in 2000-2001. After completing his Master's in International Human Rights Law and post Graduate Diploma in Forced Migration Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo (AUC), he returned to the RLP as a Research & Advocacy Officer in January 2005 and is currently the Head of Research and Advocacy Department. He has led numerous field trips in districts throughout north, east and western Uganda and has contributed to a number of RLP publications. In addition Moses has contributed book chapters as well as published in internationally acclaimed peer reviewed journals. Moses has also recently been asked to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. Moses' research interests include conflict analysis, forced migration, transitional justice and international human rights law more broadly.


Annelieke

Transitional Justice Lawyer
Annelieke is the Beyond Juba Project's transitional justice lawyer. Her academic background is in Humanities and Public International Law (LLM). Before joining the Beyond Juba Project in 2010, she conducted transitional justice research in northern Uganda.


Angella

Communications Advisor
Angella's background is Journalism, public Relations and Communications practice. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Mass Communication from Makerere University and a Masters Degree in Global Journalism from Orebro University in Sweden.


Jackee

Senior Communications Officer
Jackee Budesta Batanda is Senior Communications Officer with the Refugee Law Project of the Faculty of Law at Makerere University in Kampala Uganda. She holds a master’s degree in Forced Migration Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a BA (Arts) degree from Makerere University in Kampala. Jackee has been writing professionally for over nine years both as a freelance journalist for local papers, The Sunday Vision and The Sunday Monitor, and as a writer of fiction. Her works have been published both at home and abroad. In 2006, she worked as a peace writer at the Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ) at the University of San Diego where she documented the story of a human rights worker, Shukrije Gashi of Kosovo, as part of the peace narratives produced by the Institute. In 2008, she was awarded a research fellowship at the highly competitive Justice in Africa fellowship Programme with the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in Cape Town. She was recently International Writer-in-Residence at the Housing Authors and Literature Denmark (H.A.L.D) where she commenced work on her novel. Jackee has won numerous awards for her fiction writing including the Commonwealth Short Story Competition and shortlisted for the Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa. Her work has been performed on the BBC World Service, BBC 3 and other radio stations around the commonwealth. Jackee’s interests include migration, identities, democracy, conflict, justice and reconciliation.


Lyandro Komakech

Senior Research and Advocacy Officer
Lyandro is currently the lead researcher on traditional Justice Mechanisms in Uganda. His writings include Transitional Justice Working paper No.1 titled; Tradition in Transition; Drawing on The Old to Develop a New Jurisprudence for Dealing with Uganda’s Legacy of Violence and a Book Chapter titled Exploring the Place of Traditional Justice in Uganda. He holds a Masters Degree in Development Studies from Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi, Masters Degree in International Relations and Diplomatic Studies from Makerere University Kampala, Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences with a major in International Relations- Makerere University as well as Associate Bachelors Degree in Development Studies from Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi- Uganda. His research interest includes peace and conflict analysis, transitional justice, forced migration and international human rights law.


Bernard

Researcher
Bernard is the lead researcher on psycho-social issues. He has worked as a social worker and monitoring & evaluation officer with various humanitarian organisations in northern Uganda.


Lead Researcher pastoralist & Sedentary Livelihoods
Peter holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree of Uganda Christian University(UCU) and a special certificate in International Criminal Law and International humanitarian Law (IHL) from the International Law institute (ILI)-Kampala.
He is trained in Project Cycle Management in Post conflict situations Under Northern Uganda Reconstruction Programme in conjunction with International Law institute. Prior to joining RLP in 2010, He worked in Karamoja region on issues of Access to Justice , Human rights and conflict management.

Lead Researcher Gender & Militarisation
Ojok has 8 years experience in community outreach and social research, working with marginalised communities in conflict affected areas, trauma recovery support skills, design of peace building and conflict intervention projects, gender based violence, livelihoods and food security among others. He is currently working as a gender researcher in the Beyond Juba Project.

Morris Nsamba

Senior Research and Advocacy Officer (Governance and Identity)
Before joining RLP in 2007, Morris worked as lead researcher on several research projects. He has published in local and international forum, mainly in the fields of local governance, identity and reconciliation.
Morris has offered invaluable conceptual guidance to the government, development partners, and civil society in Uganda on the nexus between decentralization and reconciliation. His research interests include local governance, identity and minority politics, and citizenship, conflict and conflict management. He holds an MA in Public Administration from Makerere University.