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Girl Soldiers in Uganda
Reintegrating Outcasts
What happens when someone learns about positive deviance in a book and attempts to put it into practice? What are the common misconceptions and mistakes?
Jerry and Richard were to learn a great deal about this as their Land Rover negotiated the treacherous potholes on the dusty road to the teeming refugee camps of northern Uganda. Our host, Paska Aber, had gleaned what she could from a nutrition handbook that described the PD approach. Her “PD process” was already under way. Richard describes the midcourse correction that ensued.
THE ACHOLI PEOPLE OF UGANDA HAVE a tortured postcolonial history, having been on the wrong side of every regime change since the 1950s. Difficulty morphed into disaster ...
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