Rebel Lives

Dr. Kristof Titeca (*1978) is a professor of international development at the Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp. He has conducted extensive field research on governance and conflict in central and eastern Africa, and particularly the Lord's Resistance Army, about which he has conducted field research since 2003. He has published expansively on these issues in both the academic and non-academic press (such as Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, the Washington Post, and so on). He was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, and the universities of Makerere and Gulu in Uganda, with which he continues to be affiliated. He holds a PhD in political sciences (Ghent University, 2007), and studied photography at the LUCA school of arts, Ghent (2003-2006).

"Disturbingly haunting and banally quotidian at the same time. Based on meticulous research and astute writing, with beautiful poems and remarkable follow-up photos, Rebel Lives unveils a layer of humanity that makes the rebels' own photos worth understanding in the first place. It is a most important historical document." - Sverker Finnstroem, author of award-winning Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda