The Lord's Resistance Army : violence and peacemaking in Africa / Mareike Schomerus, Overseas Development Institute.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schomerus, Mareike, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lord's Resistance Army.

Juba Peace Talks--History.

Juba Peace Talks.

Insurgency--Uganda.

Insurgency.

Peace-building--Africa--International cooperation.

Peace-building.

Civil war--Africa.

Civil war.

International cooperation.

Uganda--Politics and government--1979-.

Uganda.

Politics and government.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Other Title:

Violence and peacemaking in Africa

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Note on the Text

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

1 Introduction: Seeking Peace with the Lord's Resistance Army

1.1 Getting Ready for Peace

1.2 Understanding the Reality of Peace Negotiations

1.3 Overview

1.4 The Challenge of Peace

1.5 The Scholarship on Peace Negotiations

1.6 Modelling Negotiations

1.7 What Do Peace Agreements Achieve?

1.8 How Do Wars End?

1.9 A Comment on Methods

2 The Lord's Resistance Army: A Continuum of War, Peace and Information

2.1 War

2.2 Peace

2.3 The LRA Moves towards the Juba Talks

2.4 Space and Ideology

2.5 Affiliation

2.6 Information

2.7 A Focus on Joseph Kony

2.8 Continuing Continuum

3 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army in 2006: 'While Talking, There Is Troop Movement'

3.1 First on the Agenda: Ending Hostilities

3.2 Challenges in Ceasing Hostilities

3.3 Implementation Challenges

3.4 Approaching the Assembly Deadline

3.5 Talks Continue amidst Confusion

3.6 Peace Talks Conditions

3.7 The Cessation of Hostilities Monitoring Team Fact-Finding Mission

3.8 Violations

3.9 Museveni Comes to Juba

3.10 Continued Violence

3.11 Comprehensive Political Solutions

3.12 Doubts over Continuation

3.13 Strengthening Negotiations

3.14 Conclusion

4 'Am I an Animal?': Identity, Rules and Loss in the Lord's Resistance Army

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Identities and Personal Choices

4.3 Prize Identity

4.4 Rules

4.5 Achievements

4.6 Conclusion

5 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army in 2007: 'We Don't Know If We Can Trust'

5.1 What Will Happen to the Juba Talks?

5.2 Managing the Impasse

5.3 The Talks Continue

5.4 Leadership Struggle

5.5 Conclusion

6 'Reach Out a Hand and Pull It Back': The Lord's Resistance Army's 'Connect/Disconnect' Meets International Galvanic Surges

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The Lord's Resistance Army/Movement's Connect/Disconnect

6.3 Making Broader Connections for Peace

6.4 An Example of Reaching Out and Pulling Back

6.5 Internationalisation and Africanisation

6.6 Connect/Disconnect Tensions

6.7 Misinterpretation of Disconnect

6.8 Galvanic Surges

6.9 Skewed Incentives and Cognitive Dissonance

6.10 Acting in Dissonance: Connect/Disconnect and Galvanic Surges

6.11 Conclusion

7 The Juba Peace Talks with the Lord's Resistance Army in 2008: 'Maybe We Came Too Close to the Enemy'

7.1 January Changes

7.2 Final Talks

7.3 The Missing Signature

7.4 Operation Lightning Thunder

7.5 Conclusion

8 'LRA Has Already Become a System': Representation and Distrust in the Lord's Resistance Army

8.1 Who Represents the LRA?

8.2 Battling a Hostile Environment

8.3 System of Distrust

8.4 Distrust and Approval

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Schomerus, Mareike. The Lord's Resistance Army

ISBN:

9781108659918

1108659918

9781108662505

1108662501

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40030476206

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