Current Scholars – Hannah Durick
Hannah Durick
Since summer 2011 Hannah Durick has delved into the study of anthropological perspectives on international human rights, peace and conflict studies. In the summer of 2012 she traveled with Dr. Rosalind I. J. Hackett, her College Scholars mentor Dr. Tricia Hepner and her husband Dr. Randall Hepner to Northern Uganda with UT’s Gulu Service and Study Abroad Program. The program seasons students to critically engage with post-conflict development and peacebuilding initiatives in a region shaken by two decades of armed conflict. They traveled from Kampala to Gulu where they took courses at Gulu’s Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, followed by four week internships. Hannah interned with the The Centre for Reparations and Rehabilitation (CRR). Spearheaded by four Ugandan female lawyers, CRR is a locally operated and externally funded non-governmental organization in Gulu that addresses two integral components of the post-conflict environment: land disputes, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and pervasive domestic violence. Although their time was short, it articulated the nuanced challenges of post-conflict development wrought by decades of humanitarian and military interventions, bare-faced violence, structural violence, displacement and trauma in a way that cannot be captured in a lecture or a book.