Transformative Memory Archive

Items

• Roundtable on First Day of Exchange Charles Okumu
  Charles Okumu, Chairman Community Reconciliation (CORE) team in the Burcoro Parish Awach Sub County, speaking at introductions per country/region on first day
• Roundtable on First Day of Exchange Pilar Riaño
  Pilar Riaño, co PI, reviews exchange and expectations at first session
• Roundtable on First Day of Exchange
  David McDonald, Canada, speaking at introductions per country/region on first day
• Atiak Memorial, No. 2
  Evelyn Amony of Women's Advocacy Network points to a name in the Atiak memorial that she recognizes, a family member.
• Welcome Dance and the Walk to Atiak Memorial
  The local community welcomed the Exchange participants with traditional dance and song and guided them to Atiak Memorial.
• Atiak Memorial, No. 1
  In this memorial, the lives lost during the Atiak massacre of 1995 are commemorated. Remembering the people who died during the massacre through memorialization can serve as a healing point for justice and reconciliation in the communities.
• Irene Oyik of Atiak Survivors Association, No. 3
  Irene Oyik holds one of the toy guns used in community theatres to recreate historical events and to teach the next generation about the war.
• Youth for Environment and Transformation, No. 2
  “I come from that war (meaning the one being recalled by the survivors) but this is the war we are heading to...If we were to sit without trees, could we breath? Here, rain has not yet come...” A young police officer spoke and reminded everyone that while the war and violence is over, the communities are now facing a different kind of battle; one against environmental damage.
• Local Participants of the Meeting with Exchange Participants, no. 4
  Pictures of the local participants who attended the meeting and discussion with Exchange participants. Some local participants offered to recount their stories of abduction and their experience of witnessing violence during the Atiak Massacre. Their stories offer both a glimpse of mourning and grief during times of violence, and a testament of family and community resiliencies.
• Youth for Environment and Transformation, No. 1
  “I come from that war (meaning the one being recalled by the survivors) but this is the war we are heading to...If we were to sit without trees, could we breath? Here, rain has not yet come...” A young police officer spoke and reminded everyone that while the war and violence is over, the communities are now facing a different kind of battle; one against environmental damage.
• Local Participants of the Meeting with Exchange Participants, No. 2
  Pictures of the local participants who attended the meeting and discussion with Exchange participants. Some local participants offered to recount their stories of abduction and their experience of witnessing violence during the Atiak Massacre. Their stories offer both a glimpse of mourning and grief during times of violence, and a testament of family and community resiliencies.
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  Pictures of the local participants who attended the meeting and discussion with Exchange participants. Some local participants offered to recount their stories of abduction and their experience of witnessing violence during the Atiak Massacre. Their stories offer both a glimpse of mourning and grief during times of violence, and a testament of family and community resiliencies.
• Local Participants of the Meeting with Exchange Participants, no. 1
  Pictures of the local participants who attended the meeting and discussion with Exchange participants. Some local participants offered to recount their stories of abduction and their experience of witnessing violence during the Atiak Massacre. Their stories offer both a glimpse of mourning and grief during times of violence, and a testament of family and community resiliencies.
• Irene Oyik of Atiak Survivors Association, No. 2
  Irene Oyik speaks to a hall of audience comprising of village elders, residents, officials and the participants of Uganda Exchange 2019. She speaks of the violence that divided families and communities apart and the effort to glue back what has been left torn by war and violence.
• Irene Oyik of Atiak Survivors Association, No. 1
  Irene Oyik speaks to a hall of audience comprising of village elders, residents, officials and the participants of Uganda Exchange 2019. She speaks of the violence that divided families and communities apart and the effort to glue back what has been left torn by war and violence.
• Sharing Lunch
  Pictured Here: Erika Diettes and Julio García Montes
• Visit to the House of the of the Movement for the Victim’s of State Crimes - MOVICE, No. 23
  Discussion in the House of the of the Movement for the Victim’s of State Crimes - MOVICE. Pictured Here: The artist Constanza Ramirez presents her work with families of person who have been detained-dissapired
• Visit to the House of the of the Movement for the Victim’s of State Crimes - MOVICE, NO. 22
  Discussion in the House of the of the Movement for the Victim’s of State Crimes - MOVICE. Pictured Here: Iván Cépeda, MOVICE member and Senator (Colombia). Paolo Vignolo, Director of the History Department at the National University of Colombia (Italy-Colombia). Juliane Okot Bitek, poet (Uganda-Canada).
• Visit to the House of the of the Movement for the Victim’s of State Crimes - MOVICE, No. 21
  Discussion in the House of the of the Movement for the Victim’s of State Crimes - MOVICE. Pictured Here: Iván Cépeda, MOVICE member and Senator (Colombia). Paolo Vignolo, Director of the History Department at the National University of Colombia (Italy-Colombia). Juliane Okot Bitek, poet (Uganda-Canada). Erika Diettes, visual artist (Colombia),
• Visit to the House of the of the Movement for the Victim’s of State Crimes - MOVICE, No. 20
  Discussion in the House of the of the Movement for the Victim’s of State Crimes - MOVICE. Pictured Here: Iván Cépeda, MOVICE member and Senator (Colombia). Paolo Vignolo, Director of the History Department at the National University of Colombia (Italy-Colombia). Juliane Okot Bitek, poet (Uganda-Canada). Erika Diettes, visual artist (Colombia), Kamari M. Clarke, legal anthropologist, Professor at UCLA (Canada - USA).