Promoting harmonious living

Promoting harmonious living for sustainable development in Busoga

Dialogue meetings and sensitization and dissemination workshops

At one moment Busoga sub-region was grappling with innumerable conflicts arising mainly from land disputes and domestic violence. This prompted Cultural Research Centre to engage various stakeholders especially Clan Leaders, Council members of chiefdoms, opinion leaders and Area Land Committees in the region to challenge them to work for the promotion of harmony. Dialogue meetings and sensitization workshops were conducted, teaching people what the law on lands states, as well as amicably solving land disputes. Land wrangles are in many areas part and parcel of the factors that engender domestic violence.  

And so Cultural Research Centre, organized workshops on the causes, effects and mitigation measures of domestic violence. The objective was to bring on board the clan system in combating domestic violence.

These engagements resulted into translating the Land Act 1998 with Amendments up-to 2010 into Lusoga, and authoring a book entitled: “Utilizing clans to promote Socio-Economic Development in Busoga Sub region: A Clan Leaders’ Manual entitled”. Also,an outcome of these workshops and trainings, was a book by the title: “Obugumbulano, Eidembe ly’Obw’Omuntu n’Enkulankulana mu Busoga”, literally translated as “Domestic Violence, Human Rights and Development in Busoga as well as a Kisoga Value System Manual. All these publications are available at the Centre at affordable cost.