{"id":1152,"date":"2018-09-26T15:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2018-10-01T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:17:47","slug":"photo-exhibition-explores-what-peace-means-to-ugandans-after-decades-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2018\/09\/26\/photo-exhibition-explores-what-peace-means-to-ugandans-after-decades-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo exhibition explores what peace means to Ugandans after decades of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition showcasing photographs from villages in Northern Uganda, entitled \u2018What does peace mean to you?\u2019 is currently taking place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/timetabling\/rooms\/room.html?room=K.Atrium\">Keynes Atrium<\/a> at the Canterbury campus and will close on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> October.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition has been organised by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/carc\/\">Conflict Analysis Research Centre<\/a>\u00a0(CARC) and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/cct\/\">Centre for Critical Thought<\/a>\u00a0(CCT) in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/index.html\">School of Politics and International Relations<\/a>\u00a0(POLIR) and was organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/ansorg.html\">Dr Nadine Ansorg<\/a>, with contributions from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/cochrane.html\">Professor Feargal Cochrane<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/mackenzie.html\">Dr Iain MacKenzie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ansorg carried out\u00a0<strong>fieldwork in Anaka in Northern Uganda<\/strong>\u00a0in July and August 2017. The town was the site of\u00a0<strong>the largest refugee camp<\/strong>\u00a0with about\u00a0<strong>40,000 people at the height of the war<\/strong>\u00a0between the rebel group Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA) and the government.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this work Dr Ansorg brought some\u00a0<strong>disposable cameras<\/strong>\u00a0and asked a group of ten women and men to\u00a0<strong>take photos of their lives in the camp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>All the young people that participated were\u00a0<strong>born and raised in the refugee camp<\/strong>\u00a0and until the LRA left the country they had\u00a0<strong>not experienced anything else apart from ongoing violence and constant fear for their lives<\/strong>. Dr Ansorg encouraged young people from Anaka town (Nwoya district) to engage with a\u00a0<strong>creative side<\/strong>\u00a0to research and the questions of peace.<\/p>\n<p>She says the exhibition acts as a\u00a0<strong>sensitive and silent witness\u00a0<\/strong>of the lives of young people in a\u00a0<strong>post-conflict environment<\/strong>, not only showing what peace means to the people affected by one of the most\u00a0<strong>brutal and devastating wars<\/strong>\u00a0on the African continent, but also symbolising a lot of the\u00a0<strong>dreams, hopes and wishes<\/strong>\u00a0of young people in a post-conflict environment.<\/p>\n<p>The photos enable the audience to\u00a0<strong>engage directly with the people from Northern Uganda<\/strong>. The exhibition also makes the point that those involved demonstrate that they are\u00a0<strong>not helpless victims without agency in need of \u2018saving\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0from us in the West, but\u00a0<strong>active intelligent people<\/strong>\u00a0who, despite their specific circumstances, are not that different to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition showcasing photographs from villages in Northern Uganda, entitled \u2018What does peace mean to you?\u2019 is currently taking place in the Keynes Atrium at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2018\/09\/26\/photo-exhibition-explores-what-peace-means-to-ugandans-after-decades-of-war\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39550,"featured_media":1153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131003,131000,131002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}