Sverker Finnström is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, the Dept of Cultural Anthropology & Ethnology, Uppsala University. He held the chair of the Swedish Anthropological Association from 2013 to 2015. Starting from 1997, and with a focus on young adults coming of age in the shadows of civil war, he has conducted recurrent fieldwork in Acholiland, northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and other groups have been fighting the Ugandan government.He has authored "Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda" (Duke University Press, 2008), for which he was honored with the Distinguished Margaret Mead Award, offered jointly by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Finnström is co-editor (with a contributed chapter as well) of "Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing" (Duke University Press, 2013). He is also a contributing author to the following anthologies, available on Amazon:"War, Technology, Anthropology" (Berghahn Books 2012)"The Lord's Resistance Army" (Zed Books, 2010)"Localizing Transitional Justice" (Stanford University Press, 2010)"Crisis of the state" (Berghahn Books, 2009; pbk 2012)"No peace, no war" (Ohio University Press/James Currey, 2005)"Navigating youth, generating adulthood" (The Nordic Africa Institute, 2006)For more information and online papers, visit Finnström on academia.edu:http://uppsala.academia.edu/SverkerFOr visit Uppsala University:http://www.antro.uu.se/en/about-us/staff2/sverker-finnstrom/