Publications

Uganda’s Civil War and the Politics of ICC Intervention, Ethics and International Affairs, vol. 21, no. 2 (2007).

Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines were drawn between settler and native as distinct political identities, and between natives according to tribe. Out of that colonial experience issued a modern language of pluralism and difference.

Forced displacement exposes communities to potential risks of HIV transmission, both during flight and when they are negotiating alternative forms of settlement. The available multiple histories of sexual violence during and after conflict highlight the fact that young refugee women are often victimized and thus bear the brunt of consequences in their sexual and reproductive lives.