After the war between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (1986‐2006), 90 per cent of the displaced rural population in Northern Uganda returned to small‐scale farming on their ancestral lands and their systems of communal land stewardship. At the time, there was much debate about transitional justice interventions to address war's violence, but in that same period over 85 per cent of Acoli chiefdoms saw affiliated clans, or kin‐based political communities (kaka), negotiate to write down their Indigenous governance constitutions for the first time. Acoli Kaka’s return to their ancestral lands and small‐scale farming, and subsequent engagements with tekwaro – Indigenous knowledge – through constitution writing, served to strengthen Indigenous governance and law after their weakening in contexts of war and displacement. It is argued here that these engagements and negotiations rooted in the land, regardless of their outcomes, served to orient relationships away from the fragmenting, unprecedented, forced Acoli‐on‐Acoli violence experienced during the war. A resurgence of Acoli Kaka’s Indigenous law and governance rooted in communal land stewardship is linked to relational repair and supports calls for transitional justice processes to nurture and respect Indigenous land rights. These ethnographic arguments also lend support to kaka’s ongoing efforts towards clan unity (ribbe kaka) and to secure communal land sovereignties.

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战后让家园重新焕发活力：阿科利·卡卡在乌干达北部的土著土地主权

乌干达政府与上帝抵抗军之间的战争（1986 年至 2006 年）结束后，乌干达北部 90% 的流离失所的农村人口回到了祖传土地和公共土地管理制度上的小规模农业。当时，关于解决战争暴力的过渡司法干预措施存在很多争论，但在同一时期，超过 85% 的阿科利酋长管辖区都有附属氏族或以亲属为基础的政治社区（卡卡），首次谈判制定原住民治理宪法。阿科利卡卡返回他们祖先的土地和小规模农业，以及随后与泰克瓦罗 –本土知识–通过制定宪法，在原住民治理和法律在战争和流离失所的背景下被削弱后，有助于加强原住民治理和法律。这里有人认为，这些植根于土地的接触和谈判，无论其结果如何，都有助于确定关系离开战争期间所经历的支离破碎的、史无前例的、强迫性的阿科利对阿科利暴力。阿科利的复兴卡卡根植于公共土地管理的原住民法律和治理与关系修复相关，并支持过渡司法进程培育和尊重原住民土地权利的呼吁。这些民族志论点也支持卡卡为氏族团结而不断努力（里贝·卡卡）并确保公共土地主权。