"Her Name is Beatrice, My Name is Lara: experiences in witnessing, internal displacement and conflict in Northern Uganda after 23 years of war" is a documentary project examining a documentary’s potentials and pitfalls in critical 'witnessing,' while exploring how voices from those living in the centre of conflict can challenge dominant media and humanitarian narratives. A photo- and video-based exhibition will be featured in the Liu Institute's lobby starting 14 January 2010.
JRP works with youth and their communities to strengthen locally owned approaches to the reintegration of ex-combatants, justice and reconciliation in war torn northern Uganda. The project is based at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia.
Field Note 5: the Justice and Reconciliation Project analyzes the Acholi concept of abomination to assess what relevance it has for transitional justice in that region.
We have just passed the one-year anniversary of the ongoing peace talks between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Both sides agree that this is the best opportunity ever for peace in northern Uganda; a region of over 2-million people that has been largely ignored, while their community and the future of their children is being completely torn apart by this 21-year conflict.
Join us for a showcase of the Liu Institute’s Global Issues research, followed by discussion
and a reception. Professors Benjamin Perrin, Natasha Affolder, and Erin Baines will briefly
present their ongoing projects and discuss the impacts of their research.
The Simons Foundation in partnership with the SFU Centre for Dialogue and Concordia University’s Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) is convening the Vancouver launch of the MIGS report: Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: Leadership and Action to Prevent Mass Atrocities.
