Resources

Books on the Conflict

• Alice Lakwena & Holy Spirits: War In Northern Uganda 1985-97 by Heike Behrend
• Living with Bad Surroundings: War & Existential Uncertainty in Acholiland, Northern Uganda by Sverker Finnstrom
• Aboke Girls. Children Abducted in Northern Uganda by Els De Temmerman

Reading Material on the Web

• Genocide in Comparative Perspective: the Jewish and Acholi Experience by Onek Adyanga
• Issue 36 of the Humanitarian Exchange
• Neither Peace nor Justice: Political Violence and the Peasantry in Northern Uganda , 1986-1998 by Adam Branch
• Ending Uganda’s “Brilliant” Genocide – a Black Star News Editorial
• NPR review of War/Dance – a movie review by Bob Mondello

Video and Audio Web Resources

• Other Voices – YouTube playlist
• War/Dance – a documentary. Also, see the War/Dance trailer on YouTube
• I Know I’m Not Alone – a documentary

Other Web Links

• Music For Life Alliance
• Fulbright-mtvU Fellowships, established to promote the power of music as a global force for mutual understanding.
• SWAY (a related organization)
• Bavubuka Foundation – news
• VisionFestival.org
• Friends for Peace in Africa
• Fes Festival of World Sacred Music
• UNICEF article about Empowering Hands organization
• Assisting war-affected youth in northern Uganda – CPAR
• Highlander Research and Education Center

Favorite Quotes

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures…
Is it beyond you to be glad with the gladness of this rhythm?
-Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali