Forced Migration Seminars & Speeches
The RLP has held regular seminars over the years, and we have made a selection of the reports of proceedings from our seminars available. Occasionally, RLP staff have also given speeches at conferences and workshops, and where the individual has agreed to making their speech available, we are able to provide them to you. Whenever the RLP hosts an event, an announcement will be made on our Home Page, and an invitation will be sent to our Mailing List. If you are in Uganda (or even if you are not!), we would warmly welcome you to join us at these public events.
We regularly invite experts or prominent figures in RLP's fields of interest to speak at our seminars, and are always looking for panellists. If you are interested in speaking on a topic of interest to the RLP, we may be able to host you at one of our seminars. Alternatively, if wish to use RLP's premises to host your own seminar or workshop, or have ideas on a theme for a future seminar, feel free to contact us at to make inquiries.
Latest Event:
- Launch of the Beyond Juba Project, a joint initiative of the Refugee Law Project (RLP), Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC) and Faculty of Law, Makerere University (December 2007)
Earlier Seminars & Speeches
- Launch of World Refugee Survey 2007 hosted at RLP on 11th July 2007 as part of the worldwide launch of the report published by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (July 2007)
- The False Polarisation of Peace and Justice in Uganda Presentation made by Moses Chrispus Okello at the "Building a Future on Peace and Justice" International Conference held in Nuremberg, Germany 25th-27th June 2007
- Launch of Working Paper 20 "Giving out their daughters for their survival": Refugee self-reliance, 'vulnerability', and the paradox of early marriage (April 2007)
- Teaching Transitional Justice: Seminar held in conjunction with the International Center for Transitional Justice from 17 - 20 January 2007 in Kampala. A report will be available shortly.
- Beyond Juba: Building Consensus on a Sustainable Peace Process for Uganda (December 2006)
Workshop report, February 2007 - Commentary on "Only Peace Can Restore the Confidence of the Displaced" Given at the public hearing on northern Uganda in the European Parliament, Brussels
by Moses C. Okello, 5 October 2006. For other speeches at this event, please click here [off site]. - Initial NGO Responses to the Roll-out of the Cluster Approach (September 2006)
Presentation made at the pre-EXCOM meeting in Geneva, by Lucy Hovil - Self Settled Refugees in Uganda: An Alternative to Camps (September 2006) Presentation made at the pre-EXCOM meeting in Geneva by Lucy Hovil
- The Juba Peace Talks: Implications for the
Protection and Eventual Return of IDPs (September 2006)
Mr. Zachary Lomo, former Director of RLP, Major Felix Kulayigye, UPDF Spokesperson, and Ms. Maarit Kohonen, Head of Office - Kampala, UN OHCHR. - Speech presented at the Brookings Institution Workshop on the Implementation of Uganda's National IDP Policy (July 2006)
Dr. Lucy Hovil, Senior Research Associate, RLP - Launch of "Only Peace Can Restore the Confidence of the Displaced" (March 2006)
Dr. Sylvia Tamale, Dean of Law, Makerere University; Mr. Dennis McNamara, Head of the Internal Displacement Division, UN OCHA; Ms. Elisabeth Rassmusson, Head of Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, NRC; and Dr. Lucy Hovil, Senior Research Associate, RLP. - War and Humanitarianism (December 2005)
Dr Sverker Finnstrom, Universtity of Uppsala, Sweden and Zachary Lomo, then Director of RLP - Implementing the Right to Education for Refugees in Uganda (October 2005)
Mr. Yosa Wawa, Windle Trust Uganda and Prof. Mwale, Makerere University - Gender and Forced Migration (May 2005)
Dr. Sylvia Tamale, Dean of Law, Makerere University
Our seminars are open forums allowing the free expression of different opinions, and generally involve participants with strong views. Thus, our hope is to produce lively and vibrant debates, and we do not believe that anyone—even ourselves—has the final say on the often complex and difficult themes under consideration.
Note that these summaries above are for informational purposes only and although we have made every effort to ensure the speakers are satisfied that their words have been portrayed accurately, it must be borne in mind that these are secondary reportage.