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"Ododo Wa" Community Dialogues YouTube: "Advocating for Justice and Reparations in Uganda" Video: This is an annotated YouTube video documenting a discussion panel in which Evelyn Amony, Grace Acan, and Isabelle Masson discuss the exhibit and advocating for justice and reparations in Uganda. The panel was held 24 October 2019 at the Moot Courtroom of Robson Hall, Faculty of Law building at the University of Manitoba

Survivors' Drawings

Annotation: CMHR curator Isabelle Masson explains the use of survivor's drawings in the exhibit design. Transcript (by Patricia Trudel): "As you see, the design is made of drawings, and drawings that were made by survivors, including Grace and Evelyn, a small group of survivors in Northern Uganda who had this experience of being kidnapped in war and enslaved by the Lord’s Resistance Army. And those drawings were the first few steps of a much longer and ongoing healing process, a process of sharing their stories and finding healing to this, and to years of this, also finding a voice and finding that they wanted to share their stories and memoirs, and now, wanting to share their stories which is quite courageous in an exhibition that you see today. So, we were quite influenced in the decision making about that and made the drawings part of the design by combining different elements of the drawings in the exhibition [...]"

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Isabelle Masson explains the decision to use survivors' drawings depicting life in the LRA camps