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In 2007, six months after his college graduation, Patrick Corrigan found himself about as far from a leafy, peaceful campus as he could get--in Kampala, Uganda, sitting in on a meeting between parliamentarians and representatives of the Lord's Resistance Army, a notorious rebel group that has terrorized the region for decades and is best known for abducting children and forcing them to participate in its bloody campaigns.
"It was quite an experience for me, sitting across a table from a delegation that represented some of the world's most violent people," says Corrigan. "It wasn't a good feeling to sit and talk, but on the other hand a peace agreement presented the only opportunity for achieving what victims of the conflict most desired--an end to the war and a chance to rebuild their communities."
Corrigan was catapulted quickly into an unusually high level of...
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