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About the Author Dr. Robert Nyeko Obol was born in December 1971 in Kitgum district. He is the first born of the nine children of Mary Tina Obol and Andrew P.K. Obol and is a priest of the Archdiocese of Gulu. Dr. Obol completed his training for the Catholic priesthood in his home country of Uganda and was ordained a priest on the 18th of August 2001. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Philosophy from Urbaniana University in Rome, a Masters of Arts Degree in Education from Walsh University in Canton, Ohio, and a Master of Arts Degree in Theology and a Doctorate in Ministry from Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology in Wickliffe, Ohio. He has also successfully completed a one year residential training course as a spiritual care provider at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. After his ordination to the priesthood he was immediately assigned to work in Pajule parish in the Archdiocese of Gulu as an Associate Pastor and later Pastor. Of the three years he served in the parish before coming to the United States of America, he experienced only five months of peace as a newly ordained priest. The rest was marked by war and violence with the return of the LRA from their bases in South Sudan to wage war in Uganda and Pajule parish suddenly became the epicenter of the conflict. The Daily Life and Lessons from a Warzone is a memoir that has taken Dr. Robert Nyeko Obol three years to write. In it, he discusses the events that occurred almost on a daily basis during the time of unrest in Pajule and northern Uganda in general. Further, he reflects on the role of faith, providence, community and reconciliation in a warzone. And above all he shares the enduring lessons that he has learned about life and himself from working in such an environment. Finally, it is his hope that by sharing these experiences those who have not had the experience of war get a feeling of what life is like in a warzone. Dr. Robert Nyeko Obol resides in Kansas City, Kansas and he is a spiritual care provider to the sick.