ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Uganda’s membership of and relations with Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The Karamoja Cluster refers to an area of land that straddles the borders between southwestern Ethiopia, northwestern Kenya, southeastern South Sudan, and northeastern Uganda. The area is populated by 15 pastoralist communities who share a common language, culture, and way of life. The Cluster is defined by the dominant mode of production practised by its people: pastoralism, or the use of rangeland for extensive livestock grazing by semi- or wholly nomadic communities. The agreement establishing IGAD declares that the organisation’s key aim is to “promote peace and stability in the sub-region, and mechanisms for the prevention, management and resolution of inter and intra-state conflicts through dialogue”. In South Sudan in mid-December 2013, tensions that had been simmering between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar broke out into open violence.
