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Discover the specific initiatives we are currently executing to foster memory, healing, and network strengthening across Uganda.
- Project Goal
Within the five-year time horizon (2023-2028), Kacel Pi Nipo will deepen memory work of partners, working towards a curation of objects, oral testimonies, photographs, tapestries, and artworks that engage communities in dialogues on memory.
Partners Include
WAN, Youth Advocacy Network (YAN), Music for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation Project (JRP)
Kacel Pi Nipo: Together (As One) in Memory
The Transformative Memory International Network (TMIN) is a SSHRC Partnership Grant, hosted by UBC. It is a collective of artists, activists, and scholars asking what makes the work of memory transformative after periods of political violence, using methodologies of knowledge exchanges and relationship.
Under the title Kacel Pi Nipo, TMIN seeks to support community-based memory work through fostering knowledge exchanges and memory work through creative methods.
Proposed Activities
- Wang Oo Sessions:
3 sessions gathering 25–30 women survivors, guided by elders.
- Knowledge Workshop:
WAN, Youth Advocacy Network (YAN), Music for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation Project (JRP)
- Documentation:
Producing a community report and memory booklet.
Circles of Memory and Healing
Storytelling and Grassroots Knowledge Exchange
In Acholi tradition, the Wang Oo a communal fire where families gather to tell stories, has historically been a central space for learning and healing. Reviving the Wang Oo combined with structured knowledge exchange provides an opportunity for women survivors to reconnect.
Given the continuing silence and stigma, creating inter-regional platforms for exchange is critical. This project brings together survivors from Acholi, Lango, Teso, and Karamoja.
Key Interventions
- Capacity Building & Training
- Psychosocial Support (PSS)
- Livelihoods & Advocacy
- Network Monitoring & Evaluation
German Project
(Survivors of CRSV from Uganda have access to safe networks of survivors)
Ensuring survivors of CRSV have access to safe networks.
This project aims to strengthen CRSV survivor participation in transitional justice through the initiation and further reinforcement of survivor networks in Uganda, South Sudan, Mali, and Ethiopia, fostering cross-country collaboration and learning.
