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Documents from presenters at the Lüneburg Conference

International Conference

Leuphana University Lüneburg, October 24-25th 2008

Some of the presentations and background documents from presenters are available here for download. (Please note that we cannot upload on this website the very heavy files -above 9MB- that some presenters provided to us.)

Click on the grey texts below to download the documents.

Friday, October 24th

The ecology of sustainable pastoralism in Karamoja (plenary session)

Mario Cisternino (Comboni missionaries): How the Karimojong pastoralists manage their territory: the ecological circle of the pastoralists and the social structure holding it together

Evelyn Mathias (League for Pastoral Peoples): Breed documentation with communities as a tool for empowerment - the example of Karamoja

Hirtenvölker in West-Europa (plenary session)

Günther Czerkus (Bundesausschuss Berufsschäfer, Deutschland): Schafe und Ziegen nützen uns allen

Development cooperation in Karamoja (parallel session)

André Krummacher (ACTED Uganda): From Farmer Field School (FFS) to Pastoralist Field School (PFS): Adapting FFS to Pastoralism

James Lemukol (St. Kizito Hospital Matany, Uganda): Delivery of health services to a semi nomadic population: the experience of Karamoja

Andrew Timpson (UN OCHA): Development and humanitarian coordination issues to be considered in Karamoja

Steps towards sustainability in Karamoja (parallel session)

Jeanne Gradé (University Ghent, Laboratory of tropical and subtropical agronomy and ethnobotany): Embracing ethnoveterinary knowledge diffusion in Karamoja: a strategy to strengthen

Saturday, October 25th

Conditions for sustainability (parallel session)

Hubert Beckmann (HBB-consult and Gesamthochschule Kassel): Transhumance as a tool of species conservation in times of climate change

Marion Rolle (Verband Entwicklungspolitik Niedersachsen): The forgotten perspective of climate policy: women and climate change; the example of Tanzania

Jorge Guerra González (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) : Interkulturalität als Hintergrund der Nachhaltigkeit

Youth in Karamoja (plenary session)

Jennifer Tang (International Institute for Child Rights and Development, University of Victoria, Canada): Exploring the Karamoja context for the promotion of child rights - Presentation

Jennifer Tang (International Institute for Child Rights and Development, University of Victoria, Canada): Appendix: story of Nakiru and Lokiru

Case study Apeitolim: Armed pastoralist in a semi-arid climate, a long history of conflict with the neighbors and the attempt to realize peaceful coexistence (parallel session)

Session moderated by Stephen Makumbi (Programme Coordinator TIP, Uganda)

Julius Ochen (LCV Amuria, Uganda): Impact of cattle rustling on the neighbouring communities: a case study of Teso sub-region - Background document

Lokut Timothy Sagal (Coordinator OCODI, Uganda) and Stephen Makumbi (Programme Coordinator TIP, Uganda): A gun/cattle free settlement: Apeitolim, the case study of peaceful co-existence - Project Brochure

Exchanges and cooperation in Karamoja (parallel session)

Christian Selbherr (Missio Magazine, Germany): Bad news is good news – Reporting from Karamoja

Andrea Rovati (Toyai - Onlus, Italy): Sharing experience and life with the Karimojong: the Toyai Italian group way to cooperation