Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies

Dr. Stella Laloyo Apecu
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The Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies (IPSS) of Gulu University was founded in 2007 at a critical turn in northern Uganda when a cessation of hostilities agreement was in place and formally internally displaced communities had begun to return home. IPSS is strategically placed to lead in research, publications, collaborations and community engagement in the areas of peacebuilding, peace education, transitional justice, gender studies, human rights, refugees, migrations and conflict transformation. Read More

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Dr. Stella Laloyo Apecu

Acting Chief- IPSS 		Ph.D. (Makerere University), MA. (UN University) View Profile

Dr. Stephen Langole

Senior Lecturer 		PhD (Gulu University, 2017), MA Peace Education (UPEACE, 2007), MA (Women Studies, (MAK, 2000), BA (Social Sciences, MAK, 1989). View Profile

Dr. Julaina A. Obika

Senior Lecturer 		View Profile

Dr. Tenywa Aloysius Malagala

Senior Lecturer 		Ph.D. (Essex University, UK), Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resources Management (UMI), LLM (Essex University, UK), Licentiate in Civil Law (Pontifical Lateran University, Rome), B.A. Theology (Urbaniana University, Rome). View Profile

Esther Acio

Lecturer 		M.A. (Africa University, Zimbabwe), B.A. (Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi, Uganda) View Profile

Adong Lucy Sarah

Administrative Secretary 		BA (Gulu University) & Dip. (Gulu University) View Profile

Adong Alice

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Publications

Langole, S. Whyte S. R. 2025. Chapter 9 . (2025) . Recognition in Church Weddings in Lotte, Meinert, Julaina A. Obika and Nanna Schneidermann (Ed) Marriage matters: imagining love and belonging in Uganda . London : UCL Press, pp. 197-220. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.24573623.16
Laloyo, S. (2023). . (2023) . Women, land rights, and livelihoods in Amuru district . Available at: https://makir.mak.ac.ug/handle/10570/12349
Langole, S. Whyte S. R & Whyte M. 2023. Chapter 2 . (2023) . Multiplicity in Lotte Meinert & Susan Reynolds Whyte (Ed.) This land is not for sale. . In: , This Land Is Not For Sale Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda. Available at: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781805390473/html
Daniel Komakech . (2022) . Dragging the finishing of Marua* Discrete Performance among Re-Displaced Former Lord’s Resistance Female Returnees in Gulu Cityscape . African Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, 9(2), pp. 119-137
Laloyo, S. A., & Tabitha, M. (2022) . (2022) . Women, Land tenure Security and Livelihoods in Amuru District . African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, [online] Volume 5(1), pp. 183-199. Available at: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334480/?v=pdf
Langole, S. and Monk, D. 2020. . (2020) . Background to Peace and Conflict in Northern Uganda . In: Josje van der Linden, Anna Rodrigues-Vase, Mara Kopp, Bleen Abraham & Francesca Dier (Eds), Youth, education and work in (post-) conflict areas
Munro, P. G., Bartlett, A. L., Dhizaala, J. T., Laloyo, S. A., Oswin, S. O., & Walker, S. (2019) . (2019) . International fieldschool reciprocity: using a whole-of-university approach to create positive change in Northern Uganda . Higher Education Research & Development, [online] Volume 38(7), pp. 1461-1474. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2019.1657071#abstract
Apecu, L. S. (2018). . (2018) . Gender, land rights and fragility in Northern Uganda: the case of Amuru District . A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, [online] Volume 6, pp. 184-195. Available at: https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/globe/article/view/2335
Obika Julaina A, Ovuga Emilio . (2018) . “I Forgive to Forget”: Implications for Community Restoration and Unity in Northern Uganda . Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies, [online] Volume 4(1). Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jacaps/vol4/iss1/5
Julaina A. Obika, Ben Adol Otto, Sulayman Mpisi Babiiha, Michael Whyte . (2017) . Contesting claims to gardens and land Gendered practice in post-war northern Uganda . In: , Contested Property Claims
Archange Byaruhanga Rukooko, Daniel Komakech . (2017) . Symbolic Universes1 of Hellenism And Afrikology: Metonyms And Search for Global Epistemological Field Building . IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) , 22(8), pp. 61-73
Dr. Daniel Komakech, Amelia Katan . (2017) . Peace and Prosecution: An Analysis of Perceptions Towards the International Criminal Court Intervention’s in Northern Uganda . African Journal of Criminology and Jusctice Studies, 10(1)
Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina A Obika . (2015) . Untying Wrongs In Northern Uganda . In: Susan Reynolds Whyte, Evil in Africa: Encounters with the everyday, pp. 43-60
Lotte Meinert, Julaina A. Obika, Susan Reynolds Whyte . (2014) . Crafting forgiveness accounts after war: Editing for effect in northern Uganda , pp. 10-14
Langole, S. 2014 . (2014) . The Significance of Indigenous Peace building Initiatives as Non-formal Peace Education Systems in Northern Uganda . Journal of International Politics and Development., 12(2), pp. 85-104
Langole, S. 2014 . (2014) . Uncertainty and Disquiet: Urban Youth Transiting into Adulthood in Northern Uganda. In Ovuga . In: E., Obika, J., Olido, K., Opiyo, E. (Eds), Conflict and Peace Studies in Africa. Peace and Peacebuilding: Enhancing Human Security, pp. 163-189
Hanne O. Mogensen, Obika Julaina . (2013) . Speaking forgiveness in northern Uganda From armed conflicts to land conflicts . Journal of Peace and Security Studies
Langole, S. 2012 . (2012) . Land Accessibility, Ownership and Retention by Resettled Acholi Women in Northern Uganda . In: E., Obika, J., Opiyo, E., Olido, K. (Eds) , Peace and peace building concepts and perceptions in Northern Uganda, pp. 58-75
Lyn Snodgrass, Julaina Obika . (2011) . Reintegrating former child soldiers into their communities in northern Uganda: A case study . In: , Governance in the 21st Century, pp. 221-232
Langole, S. 2010 . (2010) . Peace Education for Inter-ethnic and Inter-cultural Solidarity in Uganda: A Curriculum Agenda. World Council for Curriculum and Instruction . International Journal for Curriculum and Instruction, pp. 56-72

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