Field Notes: Alice’s Story: Cultural and Spiritual Dimensions of Reconciliation in Northern Uganda
Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC
Justice and Reconciliation Project
February 22, 2006
The Justice and Reconciliation Project (Liu Institute for Global Issues and Gulu District NGO Forum) are proud to launch their new website and to present their first issue of Field Notes: Alice’s Story: Cultural and Spiritual Dimensions of Reconciliation in Northern Uganda.
Alice’s Story
‘Possibly tens of thousands of children, youth and adults that were foot soldiers of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have already returned to internally displaced persons camps in northern Uganda. There, many face the difficulty of integrating into the same communities against which they were forced to commit horrendous acts of mutilation, arson, looting, rape, abduction and murder. This inaugural issue of Field Notes focuses on the process of reconciliation at the grass-roots level in northern Uganda through the story of Alice, a 24 year-old Acholi woman living in Anaka camp.Abducted by a group of the LRA rebels in 1996 when she was fourteen, Alice was forced to kill her sister in order to save her own life. She has been haunted by the experience ever since, and believes that her sister will not let her or her family rest until she reconciles with her past.’ read more….
The Justice and Reconciliation Project is funded in part by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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