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Shannon Sedgwick Davis was already an advocate for human rights in 2008 when the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group led by Joseph Kony, murdered more than 620 people in the days leading up to Christmas. But it was the idea that this could happen again<\/em> that galvanized her efforts to help end the terror in Uganda.
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Since then, Davis, the CEO of Bridgeway Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to ending and preventing mass atrocities around the world, has built an unprecedented collaboration with the aim of finally ending Kony\u2019s war. Working with remote communities in Uganda; a private, Ugandan military-trained task force; and David Ocitti, a former child soldier in the LRA, Davis\u2019s organization has been instrumental in the country\u2019s plummeting civilian-death rate (down by 90 percent over the past five years) and the increasing number of LRA defectors (730 rebels have left peacefully).
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Davis\u2019s advocacy track record is impressive, aspirational\u2014and daunting. But the author of To Stop a Warlord<\/em><\/a> is adamant that anyone can have an impact on the causes most important to them. <\/strong>\u201cFor us to presume that we have any solutions to some of these problems would be crazy, but for us to also assume that we can’t play a role or that we shouldn’t play a role for our fellow world citizens would also be crazy.\u201d
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During a discussion with Ocitti and activist and actress Sophia Bush, who has long championed women\u2019s rights in the U.S. and around the world, at WeWork Now<\/a> in New York City, Davis and her fellow panelists shared their best advice for any new or seasoned activist who wants to effect meaningful change.
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Focus on what gets you mad.<\/strong> \u201cYou have to think about what lights you up\u2014what wakes you up in the morning, and what makes you irreparably angry,\u201d said Bush. \u201cThose are your passion points. Injustice makes me irreparably angry. And thinking about solving a problem is what wakes me up in the morning.\u201d
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Listen, then listen some more.<\/strong> Once you\u2019ve identified what gets you fired up, look for the organizations doing the right work. Show up\u2014and don’t talk. \u201cSo many of us think we have the answers,\u201d Bush said. \u201cInstead, spend at least 30 minutes just listening, because then you’ll know the questions to ask and you’ll learn how to be of support. None of us walks into advocacy leading the charge. We learn how to march with people who are experienced, and eventually, we take positions where we’re able to lead.\u201d
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Don\u2019t come in with an answer.<\/strong> Even leaders work to facilitate change, rather than solve the problem themselves. \u201cMany times, people approach a human-rights problem from the idea of how they would do it differently,\u201d said Ocitti, who has spearheaded the reintegration movement for former LRA soldiers. \u201cBut you\u2019re not there to fix the problem; you\u2019re there to help the people fix their own problems. Be willing to work with us. I was with Shannon in Gulu [a city in the northern Uganda]. She chose to come with me because she wanted to understand the problem.\u201d
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Get as close as you can to the issue. <\/strong>Once you understand a situation on the ground level, that\u2019s when you can identify the gaps. \u201cIn Uganda, the UN peacekeepers weren\u2019t able to do anything against the LRA because they didn\u2019t have military support\u2014and when they lost members of their ranks in rebel attacks, they stopped going in,\u201d said Davis. That\u2019s what inspired her to work with <\/em>the Ugandan military to help create a 300-strong task force of soldiers specifically trained in tracking the LRA\u2014which helped bring about the group\u2019s downfall.
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Remember the ultimate goal.<\/strong> But as fired up as any cause may make you, there\u2019s one key element that defines any activist: a capacity for humanity. \u201cMy life is not a life without a life next to it,\u201d Ocitti said of his continued involvement with human-rights organizations. \u201cIf I want to live a happy life, I need to help the life next to me and make it better, because that will have an impact on me.\u201d
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Ocitti\u2019s perspective is what inspired him to come up with the idea of recording messages from the rebels\u2019 families and friends to broadcast via helicopter speakers over the jungle canopy. That effort may have been funded and executed by Davis\u2019s vast network and resources, but it was the Ugandan people\u2019s ability to forgive that helped him bring rebels homes\u2014a task at which many had failed. \u201cThe people in the LRA\u2014they\u2019re human, they\u2019re brothers and sisters; they\u2019re afraid to come home because they didn\u2019t know what exists back there; they don\u2019t know that anyone out there loves them,\u201d said Ocitti. \u201cWe needed to break that cycle.\u201d
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Added Davis, \u201cThere\u2019s no justice without forgiveness and love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n


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