WHY REPRESENTATION MATTERS: THE ROLE OF POLITICAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE PEACE IN THE NORTHERN REGION OF UGANDA

Human security is an emerging field in security and peace studies, focusing on ensuring peace through harnessing resources towards meeting peoples’ needs. In human security, attention is given to issues about collective good as a precondition for ensuring national security. One of the elements of human security as conceptualized in this study is political security. Therefore, this study was carried out to understand how the promotion of political security can facilitate sustainable peace. To achieve the purpose of this study,a mixed method approach was adopted and questionnaires were distributed to members of Acholi, Lango and South western Uganda. Data collected was analyzed using a variety of analytical methods, including, correlation, and narrative methods of analysis. The findings showed a positive correlation between political security and sustainable peace, r(381)= .683, P