ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the dynamics of marginalization and how these have affected pastoral groups of a region in Uganda called Karamoja. It looks at how the so-called marginalization syndrome can be addressed and how citizens can be given opportunities to participate fully in the economic, political and sociocultural development of Uganda. The chapter focuses on the experience of exclusion, underdevelopment, and alienation among communities in the Karamoja region of Uganda. Violent conflict is pervasive in virtually all parts of the region. Although the region has been opened up to external influences, the ability of those influences to take root and to effect change is painfully slow. Many scholars interested in the Karamoja region have argued that since the colonial era, Karamoja has been at war with itself, making the case that the new states created at independence did little to integrate the region into single national political and economic entities.
