The Karamoja Campaign in France

Partners

Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP), Bordeaux: post-graduate students in « Gestion des Risques dans les Pays du Sud » will participate to the campaign; the IEP also hosts the Centre d’Etudes sur l’Afrique Noire (CEAN).

Lycée Professionnel Toulouse Lautrec: the students, between 15 to 20 years old, are taking a course in photography in parallel to regular classes.

Karl Lakolak: sculpture, photograph and scripter, Karl Lakolak works as an artist both in Bordeaux and Paris.

Events

Conference: ACTED, in collaboration with the IEP, organized in Paris a one-day conference on Climate Change and Security in Africa, on January 20th 2009; See conference page for more details.

Artistic intervention: Karl Lakolak performed an artistic intervention in Bordeaux on October 7th 2008; the intervention raised public awareness in town; see the film of the intervention (right side of this webpage).

Preparation of an advocacy paper: students from the IEP collaborated with students from Groningen (Netherlands), Luneburg (Germany), 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 Lycée Professionnel Toulouse Lautrec engaged into a cultural exchange with students from Kalas school in Karamoja; the outcome of this exchange will be used to prepare to awareness-raising event in Spring 2009.