From the Field: Northern Uganda 101

by Jon Marino · 2009-02-26 11:04:00 UTC
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This is part of an occasional series with first-hand reports from those working in some of the more difficult corners of the world.

For the next few weeks, going to feature pieces by Jon Marino, in northern Uganda.

Jon is a Fulbright Scholar who conducts research on conflict and recovery, while also serving as country director of assetmap.org, a new initiative that helps communities use the internet to discover and connect the resources they have for their own development.

Northern Uganda 101

Here’s the Top 10 sources I recommend to help you begin to understand this complicated war:

1. www.resolveuganda.org (awesome advocacy-focused website)

2. Uganda Rising (documentary)

3. Living With Bad Surroundings (book, author Sverker Finnstrom)

4. www.beyondjuba.org (Web-based research repository hosted by Makerere University’s Refugee Law Project)

5. www.hurifo.net (Website of an excellent Gulu-based civil society organization that includes dowloadable research publications)

6. Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army (book, author Tim Allen)

7. The Roots of Ethnicity: The Origins of Uganda’s Acholi (book, author Ronald Atkinson)

8. www.justiceandreconciliation.com (Website for a research initiative on the Northern Uganda conflict and issues of reconciliation led by Professor Erin Baines)

9. War Dance (documentary)

10. www.csopnu.net (Website for a coalition of civil society groups working in Uganda with a plethora of downloadable materials)

Click here to see Jon's other posts.

[Photo of northern Uganda from Glenna Gordon - see her other incredible photos at www.glennagordon.com; Glenna is now in Liberia, and you can follow her blog here.]

Jon Marino
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