Ketty Anyeko

Ketty Anyeko is an interdisciplinary scholar and a practitioner of justice, peacebuilding, gender, and policy. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC and an MA in Peace Studies from Notre Dame University. She is the founder of Ketty’s Consults and also works as a sessional lecturer and research and policy analyst at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies (CrimSL) at the University of Toronto. Ketty is currently preparing a book with University of Toronto Press, forthcoming in 2025, based on her Vanier Canada-funded research on women’s senses of justice and reparations after wartime sexual violence in Uganda. Her current research focuses on children born of wartime forced pregnancy in Uganda; the International Criminal Court; and domestic violence against Black and other racialized women in Canada. Ketty is a co-investigator, working with Principal Investigators Professors Pilar Riaño-Alcalá and Erin Baines of UBC, on a 5-year SSHRC Partnership Grant on transformative memory, an international collaboration of artists, scholars, practitioners, activists, community leaders and violence survivors from Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Peru, Northern Ireland and Uganda. She also serves on boards of non-profit organizations around the world, such as the Gender Tech Initiative and the Women's Advocacy Network, both in Uganda. 

Ketty previously worked as an instructor and postdoctoral fellow at CrimSL, and with the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) affiliated with the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU). She has two decades’ experience in project planning and implementation, leadership, and strategic planning for various institutions. She previously conducted action research, policy advocacy and documentation with conflict-affected communities through non-profit organizations in Uganda. She has engaged with conflict-affected communities, justice advocates, government leaders, politicians, NGOs, sociolegal and policy makers in Uganda, Canada, Philippines, Cambodia, and the United States, among others. 

Teaching

Graduate Courses

1. PPGA 514 Research Design & Qualitative Methods (University of British Columbia)
2. PPGA 591K 001 Human Rights in Africa (University of British Columbia)

Undergraduate Courses

1. CRI492H1 F LEC0101 Interpersonal Violence (University of Toronto)
2. CRI492H1 F LEC0101 Senses of Justice (University of Toronto)

Selected Publications

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Anyeko Ketty, (Forthcoming 2025-accepted). ‘Love On Top of Mercy’: Complex Decision Making Among Women Who Survived Wartime Forced Marriage in Northern Uganda.’ Canadian Journal of Development.
• Baines Erin, and Ketty Anyeko. "Archives of the Disappeared" Global Studies Quarterly, (Accepted, forthcoming 2024).
• Baines, Erin, and Ketty Anyeko. "The “Secret War”: Silence, Testimony, and Wartime Sexual Violence." International Journal-Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis 77.4 (2022): 572-591.
• Mutsonziwa B. C. Tinashe, Anyeko Ketty, Baines Erin. (2020). “Child tracing: locating the paternal homes of ‘children born of war.’” Development in Practice : 1-10. (Second listed author)

Book Chapters

• Anyeko, Ketty, and Erin Baines. "Silence, Multi-modal Testimony, and Wartime Sexual Violence." The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between.  Edited By Aliya Khalid, Georgina Holmes, Jane L. Parpart. Routledge 2023. 123-140.
• Anyeko Ketty, Shaya Tamara. (2019). “Storytelling and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Northern Uganda.” Mitchell G, Vincett G, Hawksley T, Culbertson H. Peacebuilding and the Arts.Palgrave Macmillan: 235-251. (First listed author)

Dissertations & Books

• Anyeko Ketty, (forthcoming book 2025). “Lived Justice: Women’s Senses of Justice After Wartime Sexual Violence in Northern Uganda.” University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON.
• Anyeko Ketty, 2021. “Lived Justice: Women’s Senses of Justice, Reparations and Decision Making After Wartime Sexual Violence in Northern Uganda.” The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (PhD Dissertation).

Selected Conference Papers, Seminars & Invited Lectures

• Anyeko Ketty, 2024, “Women’s senses of justice and reparations in Uganda,” a panel presentation at the University of Ottawa symposium on Women, Peace and Security.
• Anyeko Ketty, 2023, “Separate Yet Unequal” Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Puerto Rico, USA (Panelist).
• Anyeko Ketty, 2022, “Senses of Justice After Wartime Sexual Violence,” A presentation at the Transnational Justice Summer School organized the University of Toronto’s Transnational Justice Project and its partners, Kigali, Rwanda (presenter).
• Anyeko Ketty, 2021. “UNSCR 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security.” Gender, Peace and Security Class, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada (Guest Facilitator).
• Anyeko Ketty, 2021. “Lived Justice: Women’s Senses of Justice and Reparations After Wartime Sexual Violence and Forced Marriage in Northern Uganda.” War as Social Practice Spring Lecture Series at Colgate University, United States (Keynote speaker)
• Anyeko Ketty, and Alice Muthoni Murage, 2021, “African Ancestry: Diverse histories, identities, and ways of knowing.” BC Studies Conference, University of the Fraser Valley (co-presenter) 
• Anyeko, Ketty. 2020. “Learning from Lived Experiences of Conflict”. Gender, Women, Peace and Security Class, UBC, Vancouver, Canada (Guest lecturer)
• Anyeko, Ketty, 2020. “Interview Skills.” Global Policy Project Class, UBC, Vancouver, Canada (Guest Lecturer)
• Anyeko, Ketty. 2019. “Storytelling and Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda.” Kroc Conference 2019-Building Sustainable Peace: Ideas, Evidence, Strategies, Notre Dame, United States (Panelist)
• Anyeko, Ketty, 2017. “Community's Perceptions of Dominic Ongwen's Trial at the International Criminal Court.” Whose Justice: Reframing the International Criminal Court's Trial of Dominic Ongwen, Columbia University, New York, United States (Panelist)

Policy Reports

• 2024, “Children born of wartime forced pregnancy and the International Criminal Court,” A collaboration with the Women’s Advocacy Network in Uganda. The report completed and a journal article will be developed alongside the policy report (First listed author and research lead). 
• 2022. ‘“Prosecution Will Not Solve My Problems:” Women’s Senses of Justice and Reparations After Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Northern Uganda.’ Canada and Uganda, University of British Columbia, Women’s Advocacy Network and Watyer Ki Gen. (First listed author and co-researcher-forthcoming 2022).
• 2016. “Improving Accountability for Conflict-related Sexual Violence in Africa.” United States Institute of Peace's PEACEBRIEF. United States and Uganda, Missing Peace Practitioners Workshop on Sexual Violence, Human Rights Center, University of California and Uganda Fund. (First listed author and a 2015 workshop organizer).
• 2012. “Who Forgives Whom? Northern Uganda's Views on The Amnesty Act.” The Justice and Reconciliation Project. Gulu, Uganda. (First listed author and co-researcher).