{"id":1461,"date":"2012-03-08T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2012-03-08T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T19:05:00","slug":"not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"Not alone."},"content":{"rendered":"

visiblechildren<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not alone in my criticism. Many share my concerns and have their own too, and I am pleased to see an explosion in the amount of ongoing discussion. A brief reading list for anyone who wants to understand what\u2019s going on:<\/p>\n

Joseph Kony and Crowdsourced Intervention<\/a> – Jack McDonald, Kings of War<\/em> – McDonald, of the Department of War Studies at King\u2019s College London, writes about the challenges of cooperation between states in Central Africa, and about what role public opinion should have in conflict management and military affairs.<\/p>\n

For Uganda, \u2018justice\u2019 is complicated<\/a> – Salvator Cusimano & Sima Atri, Globe and Mail<\/em> \u2013 My good friends Salvator and Sima write on concrete ways to serve justice in Uganda.<\/p>\n

Invisible Children founders posing with guns: an interview with the photographer<\/a> \u2013 Elizabeth Flock, Washington Post<\/em> \u2013 An interview with the woman who took the controversial photo of the founders of IC holding guns with the SPLA. Also quotes IC\u2019s response to this photo.<\/p>\n

Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things)<\/a> \u2013 Michael Wilkerson, Foreign Policy<\/em> \u2013 Wilkerson is a PhD candidate who has, importantly, lived and worked in Uganda. He\u2019s concerned about the contents of the KONY 2012 film.<\/p>\n

Stop #Kony2012. Invisible Children\u2019s campaign of infamy<\/a> \u2013 Angelo Opi-aiya Izama \u2013 Izama is a Ugandan journalist who says that to \u201ccall the campaign a misrepresentation is an understatement\u201d and that the campaign is \u201cdisempowering\u201d to African voices.<\/p>\n

Kony2012; My response to Invisible Children\u2019s campaign<\/a> \u2013 Rosebell Kagumire \u2013 Kagumire is an award-winning Ugandan journalist and holds a Masters in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies from the University for Peace. In her video, she says: \u201cThe war is much more complex than one man called Joseph Kony.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joseph Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film<\/a> \u2013 Mike Pflanz, The Telegraph<\/em> \u2013 Pflanz sums up the Ugandan concerns about the campaign. He quotes Fred Opolot, spokesman for the Ugandan government, expressing the government\u2019s concerns about the campaign.<\/p>\n

Questions We Can Ask About Kony 2012<\/a> – Meg Nanson \u2013 I\u2019m trying to keep my links to major publications, well-known journalists, and blogs written by those with expertise in the issues, but I feel that this is worth reading. Nanson is the founder of an NGO, and although her work is not linked to Africa, this post lists important questions that I\u2019d encourage you to consider.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll end with a long-ish quote from an interview<\/a> Polly Curtis of the Guardian<\/em> did with Arthur Larok, Action Aid\u2019s director in Uganda:<\/p>\n

\u201cMany NGOs and the government, especially local government in the north, are about rebuilding and securing lives for children, in education, sanitation, health and livelihoods. International campaigning that doesn\u2019t support this agenda is not so useful at this point. We have moved beyond that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are conflicts in the north \u2013 several small conflicts over natural resources. Land is the major issue: after many years of displacement, there is quite a bit of land-related conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut many organisations and governments are focusing on this. We need to secure social stability, health and education. These are the priorities. This is what we\u2019re trying to focus on. Poverty is high compared to the rest of the country. That\u2019s the practical issue that needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think this is the best way. It might be an appeal that makes sense in America. But there are more fundamental challenges. Kony has been around for 25 years and over. I don\u2019t think in the north at the moment that is really what is most important. It might be best on the internet and the like but, at the end of the day, there are more pressing things to deal with. If the Americans had wanted to arrest him, they would have done that a long time ago.
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\u201cAt the moment I think the work of Invisible Children is about appealing to people\u2019s emotions. I think that time has passed. Their reputation in the country is something that can be debatable. There is a strong argument generally about NGOs and their work in the north.
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\u201cThe video would have been appealing in the last decade. Now we just need support for the recovery rather than all this international attention on this one point. Getting the facts right is most important for the international media. That would help the situation as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A bunch more articles to check out! Some of them were also in the last post I wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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