Lord's Resistance Army: Myth and Reality

ISBN-13: 9781848135635 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str.

Tim Allen

Opis

The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa's most extraordinarily persistent and notorious terrorist group. Since their rebellion in northern Uganda began in 1987, the group is estimated to have abducted an estimated 30,000 children as well as committing a series of massacres and other horrific human rights abuses against the local population. Led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, who in 2005 was indicted by the International Criminal Court, they remain a group that inspires both fascination and fear. Authoritative but provocative, "The Lord's Resistance Army "provides the most comprehensive analysis of the group available, dismantling numerous myths and providing a wealth of information that is not widely known. From the issue of child soldiers to the response of the Ugandan government, the book looks at every aspect of this most brutal of conflicts, and even includes a remarkable first-hand interview with Joseph Kony himself.

Spis treści

Introduction - Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot Part I: Interpretations of Uganda's war in the north 1. Exploring the Roots of LRA Violence: Political Crisis and Ethnic Politics in Acholiland - Adam Branch 2. Uganda's politics of foreign aid and violent conflict: The political uses of the LRA rebellion - Andrew Mwenda 3. The Spiritual Order of the LRA - Kristof Titeca 4. An African hell of colonial imagination? The Lord's Resistance Army/Movement in Uganda, another story - Sverker Finnström Part II: Experiencing the LRA 5. Chasing the Kony Story - Mareike Schomerus 6. 'A terrorist is not a person like me' - an interview with Joseph Kony - Mareike Schomerus 7. On the nature and causes of LRA abduction: What the abductees say - Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan 8. Between two worlds: former LRA soldiers in northern Uganda - Ben Mergelsberg 9. Encountering Kony: A Madi perspective - Ronald Iya Part III: Peace and justice 10. Northern Ugandan: a 'forgotten conflict', again? The impact of the internationalization of the resolution process - Sandrine Perrot 11. The Role of the Government of the South Sudan in Peace Talks to End the War in Northern Uganda - Ronald R. Atkinson 12. NGO involvement in the Juba peace talk: the role and dilemmas of IKV Pax Christi - Simon Simonse, Willemijn Verkoren, Gerd Junne 13. Bitter Roots: the 'invention' of Acholi traditional justice - Tim Allen 14. The ICC Investigation of the Lord's Resistance Army: An Insider's View - Matthew Brubacher Postscript: a kind of peace and an exported war - Tim Allen, Frederick Laker, Holly Porter and Mareike Schomerus Bibliography