When the guns stopped roaring: Acholi ngec ma gwoko lobo
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Date
2020-05-11
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UTS ePRESS
Abstract
This article calls attention to the responsibility of universities to transform, through
partnership, the community in which they are embedded. The authors suggest that, to find
solutions to the various community challenges and achieve the UN Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), universities need to engage in partnerships of knowledge co-creation with the
community in ways that value local knowledge and experience. The article elaborates on the
efforts of Gulu University Centre for Community Based Participatory Research and Lifelong
Learning, located in Northern Uganda, to show the potential of co-constructing knowledge
for community transformation. The centre is part of the Knowledge for Change (K4C) global
consortium, which is a growing network for community-based research. The authors share
three research stories of community-based research that reflect distinct challenges faced in
Northern Uganda and effective community-engaged solutions. Through an exploration of
the Acholi ontology and epistemology of interconnection, the authors demonstrate that local
communities have the knowledge and experience to define and address local problem.
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Community-based research, African universities, Sustainable Development Goals, knowledge democracy, community transformation