biography
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| (1950– )
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| biography:
| Ugandan statesman, human rights activist, and UN special representative for children in armed conflict, born in Mucwini, N Uganda. He studied at Makerere, Oxford, and Harvard, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He taught law at Albany Law School (USA) then acted as secretary-general of the Ugandan Freedom Union, where he played a leading role in the resistance against the Amin regime. Elected a member of the post-Amin administration (1979–80), he went on to represent Uganda in the UN (1980–5). He served briefly as Ugandan minister for foreign affairs before returning to academic work. President of the International Peace Academy (1990– ), he was invited to become the UN secretary-general's special representative in 1997. |
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