Lakwena, Alice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Behrend
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Holy War ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Northern Kenya ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Government

Alice Lakwena’s transformation from a healer into a Christian prophetess occurred during a period of civil war and unrest in Uganda. In 1986, she founded the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces (HSMF) in northern Uganda and waged war against the government of Yoweri Museveni. Above all, her power was based on the practice of possession by gendered spirits, a ritual that fostered a unique form of holy war. Though her forces were defeated, and she later died in a refugee camp in northern Kenya, her fame continued to grow after her death.

Sectarian Groups

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Harris
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
House Church ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Anna Trapnel ◽  
Right To Read

This chapter discusses the grey areas between conformity and separatism, and the problem of Puritanism in this context, beginning with the radical inheritances of England’s earliest underground separatist Protestant congregations in 1560s London, the evolved separatism of Dorothy Hazzard’s Bristol house church, and the connections between the Leveller Katherine Chidley, the Independent William Greenhill, and the Fifth Monarchist Anna Trapnel, as an example of the points of unity felt by believers across a spectrum of occasional conformity and radical puritan dissent. It highlights Lord Brooke’s 1641 description of the subtle degrees of separation between ‘Conformist’, ‘Non-Conformist’, ‘Separatist and Semi-Seperatist’ (sic). He argues that the 1640s saw a coalescence of underground dissent with evolved sectarianism, largely enabled by Civil War conditions and Cromwellian rule, resulting in more free and strident expressions of the individual right to read and interpret Scripture, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

scholarly journals Insecurity in Northern Uganda: Are People Being Given the Protection They Deserve?

Refuge ◽  
1998 ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Cathy Majtenyi
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Lord's Resistance Army ◽  
The North ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Government ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Lord’S Resistance Army

The civil war between the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rages on in Northern Uganda, leaving behind a trail of kidnappings, death and destruction despite measures to protect civilians. Ultimate security for the Acholi and others who live in the North will only come about with an end to the12-year-old conflict, which would be accomplished by negotiations between the two sides. Unfortunately, misinformation -- and a noticeable lack of information, especially from the LRA--are major impediments to determining the war's root causes and who is responsible for the instability. This paper argues that, for a successful end to the war, the government must cease its propaganda war, which is mainly being played out in an uncritical and biased media, and the LRA must be clear about its message. Honest discussion and analytical reporting will greatly facilitate the negotiation process.

scholarly journals A Manifesto, in 140 Characters or Fewer: Social Media as a Tool of Rebel Diplomacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 739-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin T. Jones ◽  
Eleonora Mattiacci
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
International Support ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Affect Dynamics

Can rebel organizations in a civil conflict use social media to garner international support? This article argues that the use of social media is a unique form of public diplomacy through which rebels project a favorable image to gain that support. It analyzes the Libyan civil war, during which rebels invested considerable resources in diplomatic efforts to gain US support. The study entails collecting original data, and finds that rebel public diplomacy via Twitter increases co-operation with the rebels when their message (1) clarifies the type of regime they intend to create and (2) emphasizes the atrocities perpetrated by the government. Providing rebels with an important tool of image projection, social media can affect dynamics in an ever more connected international arena.

‘Man Is Ill Because He Is Badly Constructed’: Artaud, Klossowski and Deleuze in Search for the Earth Inside

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Dolphijn
Keyword(s):  
Performance Art ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
And Performance

Starting with Antonin Artaud's radio play To Have Done With The Judgement Of God, this article analyses the ways in which Artaud's idea of the body without organs links up with various of his writings on the body and bodily theatre and with Deleuze and Guattari's later development of his ideas. Using Klossowski (or Klossowski's Nietzsche) to explain how the dominance of dialogue equals the dominance of God, I go on to examine how the Son (the facialised body), the Father (Language) and the Holy Spirit (Subjectification), need to be warded off in order to revitalize the body, reuniting it with ‘the earth’ it has been separated from. Artaud's writings on Balinese dancing and the Tarahumaran people pave the way for the new body to appear. Reconstructing the body through bodily practices, through religion and above all through art, as Deleuze and Guattari suggest, we are introduced not only to new ways of thinking theatre and performance art, but to life itself.

Development and destruction of the liberal prison system in Spain: a general framework for studying the topic

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 424
Author(s):  
Luis Gargallo Vaamonde
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual

During the Restoration and the Second Republic, up until the outbreak of the Civil War, the prison system that was developed in Spain had a markedly liberal character. This system had begun to acquire robustness and institutional credibility from the first dec- ade of the 20th Century onwards, reaching a peak in the early years of the government of the Second Republic. This process resulted in the establishment of a penitentiary sys- tem based on the widespread and predominant values of liberalism. That liberal belief system espoused the defence of social harmony, property and the individual, and penal practices were constructed on the basis of those principles. Subsequently, the Civil War and the accompanying militarist culture altered the prison system, transforming it into an instrument at the service of the conflict, thereby wiping out the liberal agenda that had been nurtured since the mid-19th Century.

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