The HSMF was created in the wake of the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech shooting that claimed the lives of thirty-two victims and left scores of faculty and students injured.
Additionally, the "Holy Spirit Safety Precautions" worked to "reconstitute the moral order [in Acholi society] and control violence." (14) Doom and Vlassenroot also find that Alice "offered hope for worldly as well as spiritual redemption in a dark hour of despair," and that "the HSMF [Holy Spirit Mobile Force] was a political manifestation of an Acholi society driven into a corner after Museveni's assumption of national power." (15)