Olara A. Otunnu is a lawyer, the president of the Uganda People's Congress and a candidate for the 2011 General elections in Uganda. He was previously an advocate for children's rights and was once the Ambassador of Uganda to the UN, the UN Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and President of the International Peace Academy.
Born in Mucwini, among the Chua people of the Central Luo, Otunnu received h...
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Olara A. Otunnu is a lawyer, the president of the Uganda People's Congress and a candidate for the 2011 General elections in Uganda. He was previously an advocate for children's rights and was once the Ambassador of Uganda to the UN, the UN Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and President of the International Peace Academy.
Born in Mucwini, among the Chua people of the Central Luo, Otunnu received his early education from Mvara, in the north of Uganda.
He received his early education at Mvara, Mucwini and Anaka primary schools. He received his secondary education at Gulu High School and King's College Budo. He then attended Makerere University (where he was president of the Students' Guild), Oxford University (where he was Overseas Scholar) and Harvard Law School (where he was a Fulbright Scholar). A lawyer by training, he was Associate at the law firm of Chadbourne and Parke in New York, prior to becoming Assistant Professor of Law at...
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