Storytelling and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Northern Uganda

Anyeko, Ketty; Hoffmann, Tamara Shaya

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“…36 Together, in 2009, we designed and carried out a multi-year research project we called Ododo Wa (Our Stories) to document diverse women's experiences in the LRA and the reverberations of these experiences in the post-conflict context. 37 We adopted an Acholi storytelling practice, wang-o, an intergenerational gathering of relatives, friends, and neighbours to share knowledge, ideas, and proverbs. In Ododo Wa, women were invited to share stories following the same principles guiding wang-o, to listen to the speaker respectfully, and to strengthen those gathered as a group through relational learning and knowledge exchange.…”

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The “secret war”: Silence, testimony, and wartime sexual violence

Baines

Anyeko

2022

International Journal

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Breaking the silence around wartime sexual violence is often understood as paramount to ending it. Many survivors feel compelled to publicly testify to prevent future harms, contest denial, and hold perpetrators to account. Yet, testimony is not always spoken, and silence should not be elided with powerlessness. In this article, we conceptualize the space in-between silence and voice as a form of multi-modal testimony that is given to protect, sustain, and reimagine relationships. We consider this in relation to the efforts of Adok, a woman abducted and forced into marriage by a rebel group in northern Uganda. Following her escape and return home with two children, Adok faced what is described as the “secret war”: ongoing structural and lateral violence. Her efforts to hold the father of her children to account attests to the “secret war,” and calls for a collective response to protect the future of her children.

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The “secret war”: Silence, testimony, and wartime sexual violence

Baines

Anyeko

2022

International Journal

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“…The Ugandan Education Ministry's curriculum reform since independence has likewise re-introduced storytelling by law. These reforms are focused on re-instituting local knowledge and teaching methods, as well as countering the influences of former colonial powers [15,83,90,112]. The African StoryBook Project 3 , a repository of stories in local African languages, illustrates the value of both storytelling as a method of knowledge creation and data sharing practices driven by community needs.…”

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Narratives and Counternarratives on Data Sharing in Africa

Abebe

Aruleba

Birhane

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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As machine learning and data science applications grow ever more prevalent, there is an increased focus on data sharing and open data initiatives, particularly in the context of the African continent. Many argue that data sharing can support research and policy design to alleviate poverty, inequality, and derivative effects in Africa. Despite the fact that the datasets in question are often extracted from African communities, conversations around the challenges of accessing and sharing African data are too often driven by non-African stakeholders. These perspectives frequently employ a deficit narratives, often focusing on lack of education, training, and technological resources in the continent as the leading causes of friction in the data ecosystem.We argue that these narratives obfuscate and distort the full complexity of the African data sharing landscape. In particular, we use storytelling via fictional personas built from a series of interviews with African data experts to complicate dominant narratives and to provide counternarratives. Coupling these personas with research on data practices within the continent, we identify recurring barriers to data sharing as well as inequities in the distribution of data sharing benefits. In particular, we discuss issues arising from power imbalances resulting from the legacies of colonialism, ethno-centrism, and slavery, disinvestment in building trust, lack of acknowledgement of historical and present-day extractive practices, and Western-centric policies that are ill-suited to the African context. After outlining these problems, we discuss avenues for addressing them when sharing data generated in the continent. CCS CONCEPTS• Computing methodologies → Artificial intelligence; • Social and professional topics → Government technology policy.

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“…Bercerita juga sangat membantu untuk bina damai karena bermanfaat dalam rangka bina karakter, baik semasa konflik untuk mendorong transformasi konflik, maupun di masa damai untuk mencegah berulangnya konflik (Anyeko & Hoffmann, 2020). Bercerita untuk bina karakter dapat dilakukan dengan menyampaikan kisah-kisah berisi pengalaman nyata atau dengan menggunakan koleksi kisah-kisah fiksi yang hidup dalam masyarakat maupun berupa rekaan si penutur.…”

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Penyusunan Buku “Bercerita Untuk Bina Damai: Kumpulan Cerita Rakyat Dari Berbagai Penjuru Dunia”

Nasution¹,

Tambunan²

2021

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Bercerita atau storytelling dipercaya sebagai sebuah instrumen efektif dalam mewariskan pengetahuan, nilai, dan karakter. Tidak hanya di Indonesia, metode bercerita juga dilakukan oleh beragam suku bangsa di seluruh penjuru bumi. Melalui cerita, proses konstruksi sebuah nilai atau karakter berjalan dengan menyenangkan karena bercerita merupakan kegiatan yang menghibur. Dengan cerita, siapapun dapat belajar tanpa merasa digurui. Para pegiat perdamaian juga sudah membuktikan kekuatan cerita dan bercerita untuk memelihara ingatan, membantu pemulihan, dan membina perdamaian. Menyadari hal ini, tim Youth & Peace Project di bawah Program Studi Hubungan Internasional mencetuskan ide penyusunan buku bertajuk “Bercerita untuk Bina Damai: Kumpulan Cerita Rakyat dari Berbagai Penjuru Dunia.” Proses penyusunananya merupakan berkah positif dari pandemi Covid-19. Para mahasiswa yang seharusnya menjalankan kerja praktik di lapangan, akhirnya harus mengambil satu mata kuliah sebagai pengganti kerja praktik. Ide penyusunan buku kemudian diintegrasikan ke dalam mata kuliah Resolusi Konflik. Para mahasiswa diminta menuliskan kembali sebuah cerita yang mengandung unsur perdamaian. Setelah melalui rangkaian proses penyaringan dan penyempurnaan, buku ini terbit dengan tujuan utama menjadi materi bina damai yang dapat dibacakan kapan saja, kepada siapa saja, atau menjadi bagian pembuka (ice breaking), kegiatan utama, atau penutup dari lokakarya atau pelatihan dalam rangka PkM.

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Storytelling and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Northern Uganda

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The “secret war”: Silence, testimony, and wartime sexual violence

The “secret war”: Silence, testimony, and wartime sexual violence

Narratives and Counternarratives on Data Sharing in Africa

Penyusunan Buku “Bercerita Untuk Bina Damai: Kumpulan Cerita Rakyat Dari Berbagai Penjuru Dunia”

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