The Karamoja Campaign in Germany

Partners

Leuphana Universiteit Luneburg (Institute for Culture Science, IKKK): The IKKK is a research institute specialized on cultures of sustainability and interculturality. More than 40 students will participate to the Karamoja campaign.

Gymnasium Johanneum, Lüneburg: pupils aged 15 to 17, with their teacher of political science.

Watch the film made by the pupils of the Johanneum high school in Lüneburg

Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design de Genève, Switzerland: students from the study programme CCC of contemporary art will participate to the campaign.

Events

Conference: students from the IKKK organized in Lüneburg a two days international conference on "Awareness Raising about Sustainability in Africa: Issues of Pastoralism", on October 24-25 2008; see the 'conference' section of the website.

Exhibition/awareness-raising event: in parallel to the conference, the university students will organize an exhibition including photographs and installations presenting aspects of pastoralism and life in Karamoja.

Artistic interventions: Students from the study programme CCC in Geneva performed, in collaboration with students from Lüneburg, artistic interventions: 1. in Lüneburg during the conference; 2. in Brussels during the adovcacy visit on January 23rd 2009; more details on the homepage (report on the advocacy visit to Brussels)

Preparation of an advocacy paper: students from the IKKK collaborated with students from Groningen (Netherlands), Bordeaux (France), and Prague (Czech Republic) to prepare an advocacy paper on Karamoja through a collective web platform. See the advocacy paper on the homepage.

Cultural exchange: students from the Johanneum in Lüneburg engaged into a cultural exchange with students from an ABEK school in Karamoja; the outcome of this exchange was used to prepare an awareness-raising event on March 4th 2009.