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Forget high child mortality, high inflation, bad roads/infrastructure, poor health care facilities, jigger problems, food insecurity and political instability, some African countries like Uganda and Zimbabwe are facing a bigger threat, according to their respective presidents and homophobic supporters, gays are a threat. They are such a threat that bills have been signed into laws to make homosexuality a crime. One might think for governments that have problems fulfilling its duties, worrying about the nature of relationship between two consenting adults and questioning their decision would be the last thing on their minds. Religious and cultural based arguments aside; ostracizing, beating up and locking up a person for engaging in an act of love with another person with full consent without harming anyone in the society is beyond comprehension. Surely we have evolved into a society that is tolerant to existence of ruthless rebels with AK-47’s that has no value for human life than

Articles reviewed Chigas, D. (2007). “Capacities and Limits of NGOs as Conflict Managers,” in Crocker, Hampson, and Aall, eds. , Leashing the Dogs of War, pp. 553-582 Cede, F. (2009). The settlement of international disputes by legal means – arbitration and judicial settlement. In J. Bercovitch, V. Kremenyuk, & I. Zartman (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of conflict resolution. (pp. 358-376). London: SAGE Publications Ltd According to Diana Chigas (2007), NGO’s have emerged as important players in international intervention as the scope has significantly changed since the cold war. Conflict management has widened to include activities such as human rights education and development assistance that has seen the increase in NGO’s involvement in conflict resolution, human rights, which has shown that NGO’s can and do actually contribute to conflict management. Due to changing nature of conflict and its complexity that is emerging as now conflict is less state-centric and happen