Episode 1: “What Does Justice Mean for Women who Seek Reparations?”

“What is it that needs to be done for you to feel that your life has been repaired or for you to feel that that justice has happened? I just need these [bullets] to be taken out of my body” – Dr. Ketty Anyeko

In the first episode of our mini-series, we talk to Dr. Ketty Anyeko about how economic barriers prevent many women from seeking justice and reparations in their lives. She discusses storytelling as a powerful tool for many women who have experienced sexual violence in Northern Uganda and the importance of listening to the community.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Storytelling and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Northern Uganda
• ‘The Cooling of Hearts’: Community Truth-Telling in Northern Uganda
• Child Tracing: Locating the Paternal Homes of “Children Born of War”
• Improving Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Africa

Guest Biography:

Dr. Ketty Anyeko is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia (UBC), and the School for International Studies, at Simon Fraser University. She holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC and an MA in Peace Studies from Notre Dame University (USA). Dr. Anyeko’s research is centered on women’s senses of justice and reparations after wartime sexual violence in Northern Uganda. With nearly two decades’ experience in women, peace, and justice, and gender programme planning and implementation, Dr. Anyeko applies her expertise to her scholarly work around the lack of understanding of justice and reparations for the women she has worked with.