Rosemary Nakijoba
- Position
- Lucas-Lahri Virtual Visiting Fellow
- Faculty
- AHC
- School
- LAHRI
Dr. Rosemary Nakijoba is an Associate Professor in Development Studies at Muteesa I Royal University in Kampala, Uganda where she serves as Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. She obtained her Ph.D from the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa in December, 2020. Before, Rosemary served as Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Victoria University, Kampala, Uganda and a lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and visual Arts at Ndejje University, Kampala, Uganda.
Prior to joining the field of academia, Rosemary served in the NGO sector working to improve livelihood for men and women living with HIV/AIDS as well as Orphans and Vulnerable Children persons. She has engaged in community consulting at local and international levels with a number of organizations. She is a strong advocate for Gender justice, disability rights and Climate Justice.
For the past two years , Rosemary has contributed articles in the State of Uganda’s Population Reports (SUPRE) and recommended policy interventions on some of the pressing issues that Uganda needs to pay attention to in order to address some of the challenges posed by population dynamics and the development nexus.
Rosemary will be a LUCAS-LAHRI Virtual Research Fellow from 2024 until 2025. She is working on the project, let’s do it together: Rethinking Gender in the Mediation and Resolution of Natural Resources Conflicts in a Changing Climate in Post War Northern Uganda. Whilst associated with the University of Leeds, she will be collaborating with Leeds academic, Dr. Lisa Thorley (School of Politics and International Studies).
Project Abstract
The research aims to generate empirical evidence on how climate change interacts with existing social, political, economic and environmental factors to intensify natural resources conflicts in Post-War Northern Uganda. Understanding the Interconnections of climate change and natural resource conflicts matters given that it is only from this that we can derive sound policy prescriptions, sustain our planet and people well as improve health and well-being (Malley, 2020). The research argues that although “gender roles and identities as well as gendered power structures are important in facilitating or preventing climate‐related conflicts” (Ide et al. 2021: 43), the gender angle is not explicitly implied in most climate change- natural resources conflicts research (Smith et al. 2021; UN report 2020). The project addresses the research gap on understanding how women navigate natural resource conflicts in post conflict environments; environments where the majority of women seek a living from the land, where subsistence farming is a way of life and where women are known to be a vital player in conflict mediation. The findings contribute to the existing body of knowledge on how climate change as a threat multiplier interacts with potential drivers of natural resources conflicts and under what circumstances climate change can be connected either directly or indirectly to these conflicts.