Aili Tripp, UW-Madison professor of political science and associate dean of International Studies, spent last summer in the midst of civil war in northern Uganda. In an op-ed. in the Wisconsin State Journal she writes that the conflict is extremely grave and what she saw and learned shook her to the core.
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