Acknowledgement

At the Human Rights Center, Program Officer Melissa Carnay was instrumental to the logistical and administrative organization of the survey. She also contributed to the field supervision. Mobile Technology Specialist Neil Hendrick contributed to the field supervision and programming of the PDAs for data collection. Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Rotary Peace Scholar at UC Berkeley, Jennie Sherwin, and Roger Sherwin of Tulane University provided editorial comments on the manuscript. Eric Stover and Camille Crittenden at UC Berkeley contributed additional proof-reading. Liza Jimenez provided administrative assistance. Austin McKinley provided the original illustration on the cover.

We would like to thank the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Humanity United, the United States Agency for International Development's Office of Transition Initiatives and Casals & Associates for their support throughout this project.

We are most grateful to the thousands of respondents who agreed to share their experiences of war and reconstruction. We hope that this report reflects their views, needs and hopes to build a lasting peace in northern Uganda. Their voices would not have been heard without the help of the interviewers who worked tirelessly with us. For confidentiality reasons, individual acknowledgements will not be listed here. However, this report would not have been possible without their support.