The Regional Seminar on Localizing Debates on Cooking Fuels Amid Energy Transition and Climate Change Dilemmas in East Africa

The Human Rights and Peace Center (HURIPEC) of the School of Law, Makerere University, The Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC) at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and St. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT), in Mwanza, Tanzania are conducting a study titled: “Charcoal Conflict in Climate Change’s Decarbonisation Dilemmas: Knots of Livelihood, Nutrition, Communities, Gender, Migration and Energy in East Africa”. The main objective of the project is to analyse and understand how global climate change mitigation policies (decarbonisation) condition charcoal politics and socio-economic dynamics in energy-stressed countries down to local levels, and how to manage these conflicts.

In order to achieve the project goals and objectives, HURIPEC organized a hybrid regional seminar, dubbed the Science Conference, under the theme: Localizing debates on cooking fuels amid energy transition and climate change dilemmas in East Africa. The seminar was held on 29th September 2025 at the School of Law, Makerere University and involved presentation of papers and abstracts by academics, policymakers and students from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The seminar provided a platform for the participants to discuss

This report presents a summary of the papers and abstracts presented by the various participants, and the feedback from the panel of reviewers. It is divided into three parts, with part one providing the welcome and opening remarks as well as this introductory part. Part two presents the brief on the abstracts and the papers presented and the feedback from the reviewers; while part three are the closing remarks.

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