About JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION PROJECT
JRP was founded in 2005 as a partnership between the Gulu District NGO Forum (GDNF) and the Liu Institute for Global Issues (LIGI), University of British Columbia (UBC). From 2005 to date, JRP has been funded with generous support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands, Gulu Walk, the Compton Foundation and the RNE. More recently, the USAID SAFE project has begun to support community truth-telling activities in Atiak, a community in Acholi sub-region in northern Uganda. With its initial funding, JRP worked with local communities in the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda to document traditional justice practices in order to contribute to national and global debates on accountability and reconciliation. As a result, in 2005 JRP published its flagship report titled, Roco Wat i Acholi: Restoring Relations in Acholi Land. The report captured the opinions of cultural leaders, Acholi elders, clan leaders, religious leaders, and opinion l
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