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9781848135635

The Lord's Resistance Army Myth and Reality

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  • ISBN13:

    9781848135635

  • ISBN10:

    1848135637

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-07-15
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

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Summary

The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa's most persistent and notorious 'terrorist' group. Led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, it has committed a series of horrific human rights abuses, including massacres and mutilations. Since the mid 1980s, it has abducted tens of thousands of people, including large numbers of children forced to train as fighters. The ICC in 2005 issued warrants for Kony and his top commanders, and the United States is backing a military campaign against the group. But the LRA survives, continuing to inspire both fascination and fear.

Author Biography

Dr Tim Allen is a Reader at the London School of Economics and Program Director of the graduate program in Development Studies. Prof. Koen Vlassenroot is the Coordinator of the Conflict Research Group at Ghent University.

Table of Contents

Table and figuresp. vii
Mapsp. viii
Introductionp. 1
Interpretations of Uganda's war in the north
Exploring the roots of LRA violence: political crisis and ethnic politics in Acholilandp. 25
Uganda's politics of foreign aid and violent conflict: the political uses of the LRA rebellionp. 45
The spiritual order of the LRAp. 59
An African hell of colonial imagination? The Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, another storyp. 74
Experiencing the LRA
Chasing the Kony storyp. 93
'A terrorist is not a person like me': an interview with Joseph Konyp. 113
On the nature and causes of LRA abduction: what the abductees sayp. 132
Between two worlds: former LRA soldiers in northern ugandap. 156
Encountering Kony: a Madi perspectivep. 177
Northern Uganda: a 'forgotten conflict', again? The impact of the internationalization of the resolution processp. 187
"The realists in Juba"? An analysis of the Juba peace talksp. 205
NGO involvement in the Juba peace talks: the role and dilemmas of IKV Pax Christip. 223
Bitter roots: the 'invention' of Acholi traditional justicep. 242
The ICC investigation of the Lord's Resistance Army: an insider's viewp. 262
Postscript: a kind of peace and an exported warp. 279
Notesp. 289
Bibliographyp. 325
Notes on the contributorsp. 342
Indexp. 347
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