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Item Abazeeyi b’ebama: memory, honour, and compensation of Uganda’s world war II ex- servicemen, 1945 to 2021(Makerere University Press, 2025-12) Muhoozi Christopher; Sekito, Zaid; Kannamwangi, D K.This essay is about a group of people who contest their position in the frontier of national memory and whose calls for honour and compensation have gone unheeded. For most of their life, since they returned from the Great War, Uganda’s World War II veterans have contested how their service in the war has been remembered, honoured, and compensated. Britain, Uganda’s colonial power, drafted up to 77,000 Ugandans who were part of the 470,000 Africans recruited from British colonies in Africa (Schleh, 1968, p. 203). A total of 1,894 Ugandan servicemen died in the war, of whom 279 died in battle while 1,615 died of other causes like disease and accidents (Gardner, 2003, p. 96).1 Ugandans remember in various ways the World War II ex-serviceman. The ex-serviceman is remembered as a survivor (Kawonawo) and a member of a military regiment (Namba Munaana and the Abaseveni).Item Reconstructing Global Security and Peacebuilding in Somalia’s Changing Context(Springer, 2021-11-23) Kanyamurwa, John MaryUnderstood from the backdrop of global security contradictions, the current analysis highlights the Somali decades-old political predicament as a consequence of Cold War global security frameworks and clan-based power struggles in the country. With extensive reliance on qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, explicitly document review, the chapter argues that the collapse of the Somalia state authority in 1991 was partly due to extreme global and Africa’s security shifts whose effects we still see today. Results suggest that the foundations of Somalia’s civil war define the profound transformations in the intricate sources of global security challenges in Africa shaped by a changing global order. As a contextually failed state, prudently undermining peacebuilding initiatives in Somalia were forces comprising interclan violence, global military deployments, maritime piracy, and terrorist viciousness, mostly featuring high levels of foreign engineered restructuring of Africa’s security landscape. Nonetheless, the fundamental dynamics that have driven global insecurity and undermined peacebuilding efforts in Somalia have largely been international, regional, and internal. The latter anchored in clan-based vicious struggles for political power. Thus, the A.U. initiatives for global security and peacebuilding are enormously substantial. The A.U.’s efforts through AMISOM constitute apposite interventions to design Africa’s security and peacebuilding networks on the African continent. The chapter recommends a multifaceted global security cooperation regime to reinforce A.U. institutions to contribute to the efforts to reconstruct Africa’s voice in its security policy framework and peacebuilding initiatives.