SWAY is a research program in northern Uganda dedicated to understanding the scale and nature of war violence, the effects of war on youth, and the evaluation of programs to recover, reintegrate, and develop after conflict (see coverage in The New Scientist).
SWAY tracked a down representative sample of more than 1,300 young men and women born in northern Uganda towards the end of of the 20-year war.
SWAY surveys and data can be downloaded here.
SWAY’s principal researchers are Jeannie Annan, Chris Blattman, Khristopher Carlson, and Dyan Mazurana.
SWAY concluded in 2008. The research continues in several programs and evaluations, including:
- Women’s Income Generating Support (WINGS) program evaluation
- Impact evaluation of a vocational training program in northern Uganda (NUSAF YOP)
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SWAY Reports
Research Briefs
SWAY’s findings are summarized is a series of short research briefs:
- A Way Forward for Assisting Women and Girls in Northern Uganda (2008)
- Making reintegration work for youth in northern Uganda (2007)
- The psychosocial reslience of war-affected men (2006)
- Young men’s abduction and return experiences (2005)
Full Reports
Two full-length reports provide the most thorough coverage of SWAY results.
SWAY I: The State of Youth in northern Uganda (2007)
SWAY II: The State of Female Youth in Northern Uganda (2008)
Book & Journal Publications
Several book and journal articles based on SWAY have been published or are in press, including:
- Women and Girls at War: ‘Wives’, Mothers and Fighters in the Lord’s Resistance Army, 2009 (Annan, Blattman, Mazurana, and Carlson)
- The Consequences of Child Soldiering, forthcoming in Review of Economic and Statistics (Blattman and Annan)
- From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda, The American Political Science Review, 2009 (Blattman)
- On the Nature and Causes of LRA abduction: What the Abductees Say, forthcoming in The Lord’s Resistance Army: War, Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda (Annan and Blattman)
- Child Combatants in Northern Uganda: Reintegration Myths and Realities, 2008, in Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War (Blattman and Annan))
- The Industrial Organization of Rebellion: The Logic of Forced Recruitment and Child Soldiering, in progress (Beber and Blattman)
Supporters
SWAY was primarily supported by AVSI Uganda and UNICEF Uganda.
Other donors include the MacArthur Foundation, the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies, the IPRA Foundation, the UC Berkeley IBER, and Indiana University’s HPER.
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