Defections and home returns increased dramatically following the Amplify Peace radio and "come home" song initiative, but there were also some issues of violence from communities where returning abductees were surrendering. So the next challenge was for the communities...
Working together with international organizations like the United Nations DDR/RR team (Demobilization, Disarmament, Repatriation, Reintegration and Resettlement of foreign armed groups) within MONUSCO (Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo), The Voice Project began supporting...
Hunter Heaney returned from northern Uganda and together with friends Chris Holmes and Jay Sweet began putting an organization together. At a dinner hosted by Sweet, Heaney met Anna Gabriel. Anna, daughter of Peter Gabriel, had grown up around...
I had gone to work at an IDP camp (Internally Displaced Persons...a refugee camp essentially) in Agoro, it's a tiny village on the border of northern Uganda and southern Sudan. I'd heard about this initiative to set up a...
We began with songs. words and music. A peace movement is an incredible thing, people coming together, mobilizing like an army, and in this case armed not with guns but with songs and something more powerful than any bullet;...
In a lot of ways, our part in The Voice Project started with this song and this little video clip. Nine months earlier I’d been working at the camps and meeting with Womens groups in Northern Uganda and Southern...
