 My name is Eunice Otuko Apio. I'm a member of parliament from Uganda. I've worked in the field of conflict related sexual violence for years, and especially concentrating on the case of children born of conflict related sexual violence. I'm here at the U.S. Institute of Peace specifically to advance the cause of children born of war. Children born of war or children associated more broadly with conflict related sexual violence have not been part of the broader agenda of peacebuilding internationally for a long time. It took years for even the parents themselves to begin to talk about this challenge. It took years for the communities to begin to open their ears, its ears, to listen to the women, to the children who were coming with children themselves, the young mothers, the first wives. Communities or societies simply didn't have any consideration within the available space to deal with the massive problem that we had at hand at that time. We've had a lot of efforts at evidence gathering by researchers all over, academic researchers, but also non-academic practitioners trying to put together evidence base, but a lot of it is actually qualitative in nature. It's important that we look at the magnitude as well as the scope of the problem. I think it's important that for peacebuilding we put each and every face into perspective. We want to know the numbers. We know them in millions of thousands, but who are they? Because if they're talking about rights, if they're talking about accountability, every individual deserves to have that. The transitional justice policy in my country, which is not yet in effect, puts more than 60% of the responsibility to address the human rights violations and war crimes on the traditional leadership unprecedented, bearing in mind the level of complexities associated with the LRA war. I think that was ill-advised. More so because the women and children are kind of excluded always within the spaces of traditional justice system. We've talked a lot about traditional justice mechanisms, but there's very little that has happened within those spaces to change, to kind of help women, to urge women to be part of the decision-making process. So women and children are not part of that. And here we are talking about women as peacebuilders. It should start with that. And that's why for me I think I would say that some of these broad frameworks that we're talking about, traditional justice, some of them are dead on arrival because people who matter most, the women, the children, do not have the space within which they can explore how to contribute to peacebuilding and benefit from it too.