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Kyle Chayka
Siem Reap, in the North of Cambodia, is a city with a surfeit of history.
Before the Khmer Rouge, before the French, there was the civilization of Angkor, at its height over 700 years ago. Remembered the world over for the construction...
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Sean Smith
The Institute for Youth Empowerment Program, or IYEP, is a Gulu NGO created by northern Ugandans. In a reconstruction landscape dominated by heavily-funded international organizations, this small, local NGO finds footing by offering an...
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Nora Chovanec
In an area like northern Uganda where family is the most important part of life and the decades old conflict has in large part centered around the Lord's Resistance Army's destruction of the familial unit, women are the ones who...
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Kelsey Bell
The war in Uganda is notorious for its duration, often called "Africa's longest running war." By the time I learned of this war it had been going on for more than twenty years. On the day I submitted my essay detailing the history of...
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Jeff Beers
The 22-year long conflict with the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda has resulted in the displacement of well over a million Acholi people from their homes, forcing them into cramped “protected villages” where many have lived for...