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After Rape: violence, justice and social harmony in Uganda

Hosted by the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa

SCR, 5th floor, Old Building,

Speakers

Dr Adam Branch

Dr Holly Porter

Chair

Professor Tim Allen

This event marks the publication of Holly Porter’s new book After Rape: violence, justice and social harmony in Uganda.

Drawing upon abundant fieldwork and in-depth interviews with almost 200 women, Holly Porter examines issues surrounding wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda. This intricate exploration offers evidence of a more complicated and nuanced explanation of rape and its aftermath, suggesting a re-imagining of the meanings of post-atrocity justice, whilst acknowledging the role of sex, power and politics in all sexual experiences between coercion and consent. 

Adam Branch is University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies and Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He is the author of two books: Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change and Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda.

Holly Porter is a 'Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, CRG, University of Gent & IOB, University of Antwerp and a Research Fellow in the Department of International Development at LSE.

Tim Allen is Director of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa and Head of the Department for International Development at LSE. He has long experience of research in Uganda, Kenya and Sudan.  

The Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa (@AfricaAtLSE) aims to strengthen LSE’s long-term commitment to placing Africa at the heart of understandings and debates about global issues. Through the Centre for Africa, LSE will forge new links with African scholars and institutions, and increase the visibility of Africa in the LSE’s teaching, research and policy engagement. 

This event is in partnership with the Justice and Security Research Programme, the Centre for Women, Peace and Security and the International African Institute.

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